Fourche River News Today

The Sentinel-Record/Corbet Deary An excursion of just over 90 miles can lead to small communities and national forest lands.

Chenal Valley has seen quite a transformation from vast timberland and farmland to one of the city’s most upscale neighborhoods for living, working and shopping.

Esau, circa 1905: The Fourche River Lumber Co. built a large mill on the banks of the river in 1900, led by its president N.P. Bigelow. Residents were so pleased with the mill they voted to change the communitys name from Esau to Bigelow. The mill closed in 1921, and many left Perry County in search of other lumber jobs.

Did you know that this small South Dakota town in the western part of the state is the direct center of the whole United States?

Reading the Sunday, Jan. 29, 1922, Arkansas Democrat has me thinking that we don't use the word "lurid" near enough today.

Reading the Sunday, Jan. 29, 1922, Arkansas Democrat has me thinking that we don't use the word "lurid" near enough today.