Arkansas Ties

To read more about Hiram and Lydia College:

• Altus United Methodist Church
• Circulars of Information
• History of Altus, Arkansas
• Hiram and Lydia College – Photograph

The Pulaski County Court House website has some wonderful databases coming up online.  Land, marriage, voter and court records: http://www.pulaskiclerk.com/

The Insane Asylum at Little Rock, Arkansas.

• Extensive Information on State Hospital and Graves
• Arkansas State Hospital
• Arkansas State Asylum
• Arkansas State Hospital
• Insane Asylum Fire – 1890
• Kirkbride Buildings
• The History of Arkansas

The Arkansas State Lunatic Asylum, in Little Rock, opened for patients on March 1, 1883, with C. C. Forbes as superintendent. The hospital was mandated by the state legislature on April 19, 1873. The hospital was later renamed the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases and even later named the Arkansas State Hospital.

On 14 May @ 1100, Reeds Bridge will be hosting a Panel Dedication for the Trail of Tears at the Old Austin United Methodist Church with a reception to follow.

On 21 & 22 May they will be hosting events titled From the Trail of Tears thru the Civil War at the Reeds Bridge Homestead from 0900 – ?? On both days there will be Native Americans performing Pow-Wow Dances and Native American Crafts and Showcases.

Also note that on 27 & 28 Aug we will be having the Civil War Re-Enactment at the Reeds Bridge Site as well.

I have looked for this tree at least 3 times with the wrong directions.  It is located at the corner of Hickory and Front Streets in Dardanelle, Yell county, Arkansas.

Rededicated by Dardanelle Rock Chapter, DAR, 2001.

In conjunction with the start of the Civil War Sesquicentennial, as well as the kick off of Arkansas Heritage Month, the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies is pleased to announce the launch of a new website devoted to the Civil War in Arkansas. Titled “A Nation Divided: Arkansas and the Civil War,” the site presents a wealth of information on our state’s role in its most trying conflict.

The site, which has been sanctioned by the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, provides easy accessibility to the Butler Center’s vast Civil War–related holdings. Of primary interest to researchers will be the large number of manuscript collection finding aids posted to the site. The finding aids, which serve as gateways to the collections, are divided into Union and Confederate sources and provide detailed descriptions as to the contents of each collection. Within the collections, researchers will find hundreds of letters, diaries, official documents, and photographs. In addition, a number of the primary materials have been digitized and placed in the site’s digital gallery. Now, Arkansas’s citizens as well as people from around the world will be able to quickly and easily view historical documents and photographs related to Arkansas’s role in the Civil War. Two of the first collections to be digitized provide information on greatly under-studied topics of the war: African American involvement and Arkansas’s Unionists.

In conjunction with the annual themes developed by the Sesquicentennial Commission, we have also posted material related to the remembrance of the war in Arkansas. Other Civil War–focused resources on the site include lesson plans for teachers; lists of books, photographs, and microfilm available in our research room in the Arkansas Studies Institute; and information on the numerous online databases that we subscribe to. It is our hope that the website will not only spur research into new areas of Arkansas’s past, but that it will also broaden our overall understanding of the war and its effect on our state. Please check it out – www.butlercenter.org/civilwararkansas

The Old State House Museum has certainly evolved over the years.  It would be easily to believe that it is more beautiful now than when it was built.

The photograph is on display at the Old State House.  Taken when the building was still in use as the Arkansas University of Medicine and had the Law, Justice and Mercy statue on top.

The statue is said to have been removed by the Little Rock Garden Club, who stated it was unstable and dangerous) and thrown in the Arkansas River.  (Remember UNDOCUMENTED.)

If you have not checked out their website in a while I urge you to do so.  They have newspaper articles and all sorts of wonderful Arkansas goodness.  Old State House Museum