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The former Greene County Courthouse is located at Courthouse Square in the center of Paragould, the county seat of Greene County, Arkansas. It is a large two-story Georgian Revival structure, built out of red brick. It has a low-pitch hip roof with small gables at three corners, as well as above the entrances.
The film was released on DVD in America in its full-length US version (accompanied by the truncated UK version). A 2011 release of The Iron Horse on DVD in the UK included both the US and International/UK versions of the picture, and a half-hour video-essay about the film by author and critic Tag Gallagher.
Black children were not allowed to participate in any form of public education until 1948, [8] and then by busing them out of the county to Booker T. Washington High School in Jonesboro. [9] In 1957, facing mandated integration, Jonesboro terminated this practice. [10] Prior to 1982, no hotel in Paragould would allow Black people to spend the ...
Iron Horse is an American Western television series that appeared on ABC from 1966 to 1968 and starred Dale Robertson as fictional gambler-turned-railroad baron Ben Calhoun. Costars included Gary Collins, Robert Random and Ellen Burstyn (who was billed as Ellen McRae). The series pilot was released as the film Scalplock.
The Paragould Downtown Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic central business district of Paragould, Arkansas.The city was organized in 1882 around the intersection of two railroad lines, which lies in the southwestern portion of this district.
The Paragould Stave Manufacturing Company built a tramway east from Paragould, the line being about 4 miles long, narrow-gauge, and reputedly laid with wooden rails. [2] [3] The Paragould and Buffalo Island Railway was incorporated October 11, 1887. [4] It acquired the tramway that month, and in 1888 extended it about 4 miles to Bertig ...
In an attempt to create more realistic images, photographers and artists would hand-colour monochrome photographs. The first hand-coloured daguerreotypes are attributed to Swiss painter and printmaker Johann Baptist Isenring , who used a mixture of gum arabic and pigments to colour daguerreotypes soon after their invention in 1839. [ 2 ]
In Australia the film Iron Horse was well noted as an indicator of the usage of the term to do with expansion of railways across the continent. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In the United States the 'Iron Horse' was a component of national, [ 16 ] state histories, [ 17 ] of the Civil War, [ 18 ] even as a component of constitutional history.