Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Electricity is an amenity that most people in the country take for granted, yet in Arkansas, statewide electrification is actually a fairly recent thing. Less than 100 years ago, in 1930, only 2.1 percent of Arkansas farms had electricity, and …

In 1955, after years of lobbying, planning and praying by local officials, the Little Rock Air Force Base became operational, the opening stanza of a slice of Arkansas history that continues to play out over the skies of the Natural …

Feature photo above: The Rohwer Relocation Center, circa 1943. (Courtesy of the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture) The Japanese American internment camps that existed in Arkansas during World War II represent two of 10 such facilities …

Pine Bluff sits right where the Delta’s lighter shade of farm green meets the darker shade of south Arkansas timberland, where the crops turn from rice and soybeans to loblolly pine and oak. Both shades of green have resulted in …

When the Mississippi River is extremely low, the ruins of a ghost town are visible on the sandbars at its confluence with the Arkansas River, locals say. For a brief time in the mid-19th century, the former town — Napoleon …

Photos provided by the National Lum and Abner Society. Feature image above: The Jot ‘Em Down Store and Lum and Abner Museum in Pine Ridge. The Grandpappy of Corn Coms — Lum and Abner Museum and Jot ‘Em Down Store …

A pokey of some Importance — Scott County Museum of History helps preserve historic building, enhance downtown Waldron Photos by Sarah DeClerk Situated on the western edge of the state in the heart of the Ouachita National Forest and miles …

Parking garages are rarely designed to be looked at, let alone seen. They serve a simple purpose: to store cars and vanish into the background. But in Bentonville, Arkansas, just beyond the walls of the Momentary, something different has taken …

Photos courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Feature photo above: Monte Ne in the early 1900s.   Monte Ne ruins beneath Beaver Lake include planned testament to fall of civilization   Just beneath the surface of Beaver Lake near Rogers …

Residents of North Little Rock are mourning the loss of a landmark Wednesday evening. St. Joseph Center, a former orphanage that had found new life as an urban farming center, AirBnB and artist studio, suffered heavy damage as a result …