Lonoke County Courthouse, Lonoke, Arkansas

Lonoke County, Arkansas Court House

Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas

N34.47.137 W091.53.987

Lonoke County

Senator Joe T. Robinson

Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Arkansas outstanding statesman was born six miles

northwest of this place in 1872. He lived in Lonoke and practiced law; was elected to Congress

and served ten years; moved to Little Rock in 1912; served as Governor in 1913 until he

resigned to qualify as United States Senator in the same year. Served as chairman of the minority

conference 1922 until 1933, when he became chairman of the Democratic Majority in the

Senate, which he still holds in this centennial year of 1936.

- Arkansas History Commission 1936.

Lonoke Landmarks

Joseph Taylor Robinson Home - 204 NE Front Street.

Practiced law in Lonoke 1893 - 1912.

U.S. Congressman 1902 - 1913

Governor of Arkansas - January - March 1913

U.S. Senator 1913 - 1937

Lonoke was named for a lone oak tree, surveyor's landmark for Memphis - Little Rock

Railroad - 1858. The tree grew at 106 McKinley.

Eberts Field, U.S. Signal Corps Aviation Training School on 640 acres Hwy 89 donated

by citizens, was named for Lt. M. M. Eberts, aviator killed in 1917.

Lonoke Bicentennial 1976.

Confederate Memorial

Erected by the T.C. Hindman Chapter, U.D.C.

Lonoke, Arkansas

Lonoke County commends the faithfulness of her sons to future generations.