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Pine Bluff Murals
Jefferson County, Arkansas
Located at 2nd & Main Painted by Robert Dafford (Dafford
Mural Company) of Lafayette, Louisiana.
http://www.daffordmurals.com/theMurals/index.html 
Traditions and heritage at Pine Bluff's first Branch Normal,
then A M & N college, now University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
Branch Normal College was established in 1873 by an act of the
Legislature as a branch of the Arkansas Industrial University in
Fayetteville which is now the University of Arkansas. School
opened on September 27,1875, in a rented frame building on the
corner of Sevier and Lindsey Streets with Professor J.C. Corbin,
in charge, seven students enrolled, three from Jefferson County
and four from Drew County. Corbin, the founder of the school, is
pictured in the upper right.
The top left section of the mural, shows a mechanical arts
class. Mechanical arts was one of the disciplines promoted at
Branch Normal and later the name of the college was changed to
Arkansas Agricultural Mechanical and Normal College. The man
whose portrait appears in the top left section was the first
president of A. M. & N. College, John Brown Watson. He
established many of the traditions of the college and managed to
get the multipurpose concept of education adopted and
implemented.
The next pane to the right shows what appears to be one of the
first of the Branch Normal classes in the two-story brick
structure, erected in 1882 by state funds on a fifty-acre plot
in the suburbs of Pine Bluff.
     
I am still missing the following
murals...
- Arkansas Flag - Honoring Willie
Hocker, designer of the Arkansas State Flag and painted by
the Fryes.
- Steam Engine 819, Cotton Belt
Railroad. Located at 901 Main Street and painted by Robert
and Douglas Dafford.
- Medical Mural - located at 11th &
Cherry to honor the Davis Hospital and the Jefferson
Regional Hospital. Painted by Dafford Mural Company.
- The Old Fire Station - Eighth and
Main, painted by Dafford.
- Movie Mural - Painted by Michael
Wojczuk of Colorado honoring Freeman Owens and Max
Aarsonson.
- Timber Mural by David and Susan
(Kelly) Frye of Houston, Texas.
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