Dedicated to the Memory of James (Jim) Earnest Cook

1884 – 1955

Beloved lifelong citizen of Cochran and Bleckley County, he was a banker, farmer, mayor, Rotarian, Mason, Shriner and a never failing friend to all. His example to do all men good helped shape the lives and destiny of ...

Miss Laura's

This property has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Arkansas

Historic Preservation

Program

Depart of Arkansas Heritage

Marker is on North “B” Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Commissary

This building, on the N.W. Bastion of the wall, was the commissary of the Fort build in 1839. Used until 1871 when the fort was abandoned as a military post from 1861-65. It served as a hospital, guard house, and ...

Reynolds - Davis Wholesale Grocery Company

300 Garrison Avenue

This facade is all the remains of the five story building occupied from 1907 to 1955 by Reynolds - Davis Wholesale Grocery Company. The building subsequently served Checker Transfer & Storage Company from 1957 thru 1988 as well ...

W.J. Murphy - Eads Brothers Building in 1903

The first mention of this property is from 1838 when it was part of the brickyard that manufactured bricks to build the second Fort Smith. In 1877 the City Hotel was built here. In 1897, identical buildings were constructed to ...

Union Occupation of Fort Smith

On Sept. 1, 1863, U.S. troops under Gen. James Blunt seized Ft. Smith. It remained a Union post for the duration of the war. Fort Smith became a haven for white war refugees and former slaves, many of whom joined ...

Fort Benning / Fort Benning Military Reservation

Side 1: Fort Benning

Kasihta or Cusseta Town, an important Creek Nation market, played a part in American Revolutionary affairs. In 1780 British Colonel John Tate recruited a large force of local Indians for duty with the British in their defense ...

Church of Saints John and Paul

Callahan, Siskiyou Co., California

Erected about 1858

Father James Croke. A missionary priest held first service here.

First Catholic Church in Scott Valley

Marker is on East Fork Road south of California Highway 3, on the left when traveling south.

Historic Christ Church, Hapeville

With the involvement of Hapeville’s first Mayor, Samuel Hape, the oldest standing church structure in the City of Hapeville, situated at Georgia Avenue and Chestnut Street, was consecrated in November 1895. From 1895 until 1906 the building functioned as an ...

Confederate Graves at Dragoon Springs

On May 5, 1862, a Confederate foraging party rounding up cattle near the abandoned Butterfield Overland Mail Station battled a group of apaches. The soldiers were members of Company A, Governor John R. Baylor's Regiment of Arizona Rangers, under the ...