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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.
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 ...
A 3.5 million year old fossil bed near Hagerman, discovered in the 1920s, has yielded more than 30 complete horse skeletons and is said to be the "best known Pleistocene-epoch fossil site in the world". [15] Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, specifically the Hagerman Horse Quarry, [16] contains the largest concentration of these fossils ...
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.
Iron Horse (also known as Pegasus Without Wings) [2] [3] is a 2-ton, 12-foot-tall iron sculpture created by Abbott Pattison. [4] Although the sculpture was not well-received at first, as of the second decade of the twenty-first century it is visited by many tourists and University of Georgia students.
Iron Horse Bicycles, an bicycle manufacturer from 1987 to 2009; Iron Horse Brewery, a craft brewery and brew pub operator in Ellensburg, Washington; Iron Horse Night Club, formerly the Strathcona Canadian Pacific Railway Station, a bar in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Iron Horse, an industrial park owned by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
The Paragould War Memorial is a scaled-down replica of the Statue of Liberty, located in Courthouse Park near the Greene County Courthouse at the heart of Paragould, Arkansas. The statue is a bronze cast created by John Paulding and was cast at the American Art Bronze Foundry in Chicago, Illinois in 1920.