The Great Southern Hotel, also known as the Rusher Hotel or Hotel Rusher, is a historic hotel building at 127 W. Cedar St. near the town square in Brinkley. The hotel, which operated during the heyday of American railroads, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 18, 1986. The former hotel now houses Low's Bridal and Formal Shop, which is one of the largest bridal shops in the United States, attracting clientele from across Arkansas and neighboring states to the town of Brinkley.
One of the most influential institutions in early Arkansas was the Fayetteville Female Seminary, which provided a quality education for girls throughout the region in a time when most women received little, if any, schooling. It also accepted Cherokee and white students in an era when the "mixing of the races" was discouraged.
Arkansas-based Dierks Forests Inc. – which amassed holdings of 1.75 million acres of timberland – was one of the largest family-owned landholding entities in the United States until its sale to Weyerhaeuser Co. in 1969. Hot Springs Village was created in 1970 on land holdings from the Dierks company.
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When Robert Hitchings, archivist-historian at the Chesapeake Central Library, came across a collection of vintage Valentines in his grandmother’s trunk, he created a library display. Over the last seven years, dozens of donated Valentines have found their way into the archives.
Marlon Blackwell is what's commonly known as an Air Force brat. He was born in November 1956 in Germany and grew up on or near Air Force bases in the Philippines, Alabama, Florida and Montana. The former high school wrestler was driven to succeed from the start.
When Peter MacKeith came to Arkansas in 2014 as dean of the University of Arkansas' Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, he began reading extensively about the state and its history.