For decades, Tuesday was auction day for area farmers who raised livestock. On that day, livestock was rounded up, loaded into trailers and taken to the auction in Conway.
The first Conway livestock auction was held in October 1943. Major Lewis of Shirley and his partner, Homer Brown, would hold sales every Tuesday in J.H. Berry’s on the east side of Markham by the Old Gin building. Continue reading
Although most of us recall from elementary school that the first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth Colony in 1621, it was not until 200 years later that President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday in November to be a national day of thanksgiving.
Sarah Josepha Hale, author of the timeless nursery rhyme, “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” Continue reading
by Carol Rolf
Published in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on August 16, 2015
Photo of bridge by Wayne Kizziar, used with permission.
Back in the day, the Springfield-Des Arc Bridge was an important part of a trade route that connected Des Arc on the White River in Prairie County with Springfield, which was the seat of government in Conway County from 1850-1873. Des Arc was a steamboat landing on the White River. Continue reading
Local author Bill Thomas contributes often to the Faulkner County Historical Society’s journal Faulkner Facts and Fiddlings. His latest efforts appear in the spring 2015 issue in the form of an informal history of Wooster and recollections of Conway’s old Victory Courts and the Conark Courts.
The Wooster article is accompanied by Continue reading
Photo from Herbal Medicines of the Civil War by Jim Long, used with permission.
The Faulkner County Historical Society will conduct its annual program for the public at 6 p.m., Thursday, April 30, at the Faulkner County Library in the west side room. The guest speaker for the event will be naturalist and retired biology teacher Shirley Pratt.
She will bring samples of several common native plants of Faulkner County for participants to examine and learn to identify, and also discover how some native plants were used as Continue reading