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The Arkansas Portal. Arkansas ( / ˈɑːrkənsɔː / ⓘ AR-kən-saw) is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. Its name derives from the Osage language, and ...
The first train arrived in Manila on December 2, 1900, and the town would usually see four trains a day until 1938. [2] This station was built in 1910, and is a well-preserved example of a wood-frame board-and-batten station of the period. [3] The following year, the railroad came under the ownership of prominent Mississippi County plantation ...
Arkansas State University - Newport at Jonesboro (Jonesboro, AR) Athletics [ edit ] On January 26, 2023, ASU-Newport announced that it will start athletic programs, beginning with men’s basketball and women’s softball, in the fall of 2023.
History. A-State was founded as the First District Agricultural School in Jonesboro in 1909 by the Arkansas Legislature as a regional agricultural training school.Robert W. Glover, a Missionary Baptist pastor who served in both houses of the Arkansas Legislature from Sheridan (1905–1912), introduced in 1909 the resolution calling for the establishment of four state agricultural colleges ...
Added to NRHP. November 7, 1976. The Bell House is a historic house at 303 West Cherry Street in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, built in 1895 by J. V. Bell, owner of one of Jonesboro's first bookstores. The house is an elaborately-decorated Queen Anne Victorian, with an asymmetrical arrangement of projecting bays ...
The 2014–15 Arkansas State Red Wolves men's basketball team represented Arkansas State University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Red Wolves, led by seventh year head coach John Brady, played their home games at the Convocation Center, and were members of the Sun Belt Conference.
The Church Wars of Jonesboro were a series of conflicts in Jonesboro, Arkansas between followers of the fundamentalist evangelist Joe Jeffers and the Reverend Dow H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Members of Jeffers' congregation also attacked the mayor and police chief, resulting in Governor Harvey Parnell calling out ...
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Jonesboro, Lake City and Eastern Railroad (JLC&E) was a short-line railroad that operated in Mississippi and Craighead counties of northeast Arkansas. This railroad received a charter from the state of Arkansas on April 7, 1897, and track construction between Jonesboro and Blytheville began soon ...