Two miles south of Blevins (Hempstead County, Arkansas) along the old Blevins to Washington Road, once sat the Blevins Training School, a...

In the 1820s, the Blevins family built a primitive, two story home without the use of nails in today's Hempstead County, Arkansas. This...

In 1838, when the United States and the Republic of Texas surveyed the boundary between the countries along the Index Line (today's...

I often spend my evenings (as well as days, weekends, times when I should be grading papers…) perusing old maps. One of my particular...

One of the oldest roads in the Red River Valley was the Tennessee to Washington (Hempstead County, Arkansas) to Fulton (Hempstead County)...

In the US, death of history is frequent. I’m not talking about historical events today, even though they have their own share of death...

The old story of the “Arkansas Traveler” tells of a person coming through the backwoods of Arkansas and happening upon a house. The...