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1889-10 Goodspeed's Memoirs of NEA, Lawrence County Excerpts
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A leading source of info on late-18th-century Lawrence County, featuring a detailed sketch of the county's history and economy as well as numerous biographical sketches. Taken from the larger work, "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas."
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1874 G .W. Colton AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Perhaps the earliest map to feature Walnut Ridge; note the additions of the other railroad towns since the 1869 map as well.
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1924 Rand McNally Map of AR, LawCo Detail
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Map includes each county's townships; note the presence of the Cache Valley Railroad spur line at Sedgwick.
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1869 G .W. Colton AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Map shows the planned location of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad through eastern Lawrence County.
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1933 AHTD Roads of AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Map illustrates that in 1933, Highway 63 still went through Powhatan and thus bypassed Black Rock & Portia.
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1878 GLO Map of Arkansas, LawCo Detail
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Depicts Walnut Ridge as well as several now-vanished outlying communities such as Rhea and Buncombe Ridge.
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1896-01-24 Haven Weekly Record KS pg 3
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Trouble occurs at and following a Populist meeting in Powhatan after a group of young boys disturb the meeting and a man throws a stick of wood at one of them in return.
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1908-10-26 Memphis Commercial Appeal TN pg 7
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Lee Ridgeway is not expected to live after being shot by Alf Bagley.
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1935-08-23 Ogden Standard-Examiner UT pg 4
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The Powhatan jail is turned into a community house.
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1870-06-30 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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Walnut Ridge is included in a statewide list of post offices, perhaps the first mention in a newspaper of WR. Other Lawrence County post offices include Ash Flat, Canton, Clover Bend, Evening Shade, Laura Town, Powhatan, Rhea, and Smithville.
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1909 George Cram & Ellis Davis Map of AR, LawCo Detail
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Original map is part of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, at www.davidrumsey.com.
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1897 Rand McNally AR Map, LawCo Detail
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Map shows the routes of the Kansas City, Ft Scott, & Memphis RR and the St. Louis, Iron Mtn, & Southern RR through Lawrence County.
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1905-06-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 13
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A list of social and travel news briefs from Walnut Ridge includes college students returning from Batesville and Fayetteville.
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1922-06-09 Arkansas Gazette pg 10
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The Arkansas Gazette publishes a list of all known Lawrence County newspapers through 1922, giving a brief summary of each paper.
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1896-01-27 St Louis Globe-Democrat MO pg 2
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A second, varied account of the Populist Meeting tragedy in Powhatan notes that the son of the sheriff that was involved was sixteen, that he and the other boys had been shooting stones, and other details.
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1905-07-16 Arkansas Democrat pg 10
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1931-01-15 Blytheville Courier pg 1
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A car plunges one hundred feet from a bridge, perhaps at Powhatan, killing one and injuring another.
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1908-10-28 Jonesboro Weekly Sun pg 2
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The Jonesboro Sun provides further details on the circumstances of Alf Bagley's murder of Lee Ridgeway on Main Street.
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1898-08-06 Arkansas Democrat pg 4
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A Powhatan man is killed with a hammer at his own blacksmith shop.
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1906-01-12 Leighton News AL pg 2
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Walnut Ridge once again turns dry, and petitions circulate both for and against the renewal of the saloons' licenses.
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1934-06-08 Mountain Home Baxter Bulletin pg 1
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A former resident describes antebellum Powhatan, including former industries there and the fate of a planned road from Powhatan to Crowley's Ridge leading near what became Walnut Ridge.
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1874-09-26 Arkansas Gazette pg 4
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A woman and her two children are injured when the horses towing their vehicle between WR & Powhatan run away.
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1898-08-07 Washington Times DC pg 1
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A news brief alleges that the dispute in which Powhatan blacksmith Douglas Horton was killed was about a watermelon.
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1906-05-13 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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A special term of court is called in Powhatan to deal with cases related to an assault on a railroad worker at Black Rock.
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1908-06-05 Woodward News OK pg 1
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A real estate ad for the Childers farm near Powhatan notes the farm's many amenities.
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1902-03-14 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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A man goes to Walnut Ridge to buy mules, falls in love with the step-daughter of his Thanksgiving dinner host at WR, and the two are later married.
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1913-12-18 Arkansas Democrat pg 16
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A Powhatan farmer visits Walnut Ridge to take Christmas tree orders.
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1938-05-10 Hope Star pg 1
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The governor of Arkansas buys a Black Rock river ferry for the state, to compete with Powhatan's toll bridge.
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1888-01-05 St Louis Post-Dispatch MO pg 2
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A news brief notes that "Walnut Ridge, Hoxie, and all other towns in Lawrence County have gone dry by petition" for a period of two years.
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1902-12-05 Arkansas Democrat pg 3
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The Arkansas Democrat publishes a detailed list of Lawrence County industries and notable farm operations.
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1917-05-14 Arkansas Gazette pg 1
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A family is injured on a ride from Powhatan to Hoxie when their car strikes a log in the road.
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1895-03-29 Springfield Leader and Press MO pg 1
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A man is charged with blowing the safe open at the county treasurer's office in Powhatan.
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1903-08-06 Arkansas Democrat pg 5
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Telephone lines are installed from Walnut Ridge to Black Rock, Powhatan, and Pocahontas.
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1921-01-22 Augusta Daily Gazette KS pg 1
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A man enters the Powhatan courthouse as a spectator, but is soon arrested instead.
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Photo, Powhatan Bridge
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