The Marianna Cut-Off: What’s Left of Chatfield
Ghost towns are generally places where it is evident that a town was located at the spot, but in parts of the Arkansas Delta, there …
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The Ruins of St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church, Amanca, Arkansas
West Memphis, with its dog racing track/casino and industries obscures the fact that Crittenden County, Arkansas was once Delta country, with plantations and sharecropper shacks. …
Remembering Phelix High School and the Town of Sunset
Segregation of the races was the law in most of the Southern United States from around 1890 on, but as the Progressive era dawned in …
A Solution Becomes A Problem in Harvard Yard
For reasons lost to history, at some point, there was a little wide place in the road north of Marion, Arkansas called Harvard. It wasn’t …
How To Destroy A Town Part 2: Turrell, Arkansas
The small town of Turrell, Arkansas in northern Crittenden County is yet another victim of Arkansas’ vicious school-closing law. Because Turrell’s school enrollment fell below …