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The North Arkansas Mining Company was incorporated in 1867. John F. Harrison of Pocahontas was president, J.E. Thompson ...
North Arkansas Mining Company
The Powhatan Weekly Visitor was a newspaper in Lawrence County, Arkansas founded by J.C. Shook in 1857. Source: ...
Powhatan Visitor
Act No. 85 was a law enacted by the State of Arkansas on March 26, 1887. It divided ...
Act No. 85
E.H. Hall was the deputy circuit clerk in Powhatan until 1922, when he resigned. Sources: "Deputy Clerk Resigns." ...
E.H. Hall
James W. Butler (1829-1913) was a resident of Batesville, Arkansas who served as judge on the Third District ...
James W. Butler
Senter Wilkins Stuart was the son of Powhatan merchant Frank C. Stuart. His mother was Emma Moore. He ...
Senter Wilkins Stuart
Dolly Varden was a steamer that operated on the Black River. She does not appear in Way’s Packet ...
Dolly Varden
The following is a description of Powhatan in the year 1889. Goodspeed "Powhatan proves a profitable center for ...
1889
Robert E. Craig (1824-1837) is the earliest recorded death at Powhatan (if current evidence is correct and the ...
Robert Emmett Craig
This page relates to the history of Lawrence County and Northeast Arkansas as it pertains to the Civil ...
Civil War
The Powhatan Zinc and Lead Mining Company incorporated in June 1906. The company was capitalized at $100,000. Incorporators ...
Powhatan Zinc and Lead Mining Company
Some say the first improved road in Arkansas was from Powhatan towards to Crowley's Ridge and was known ...
Roads
Isaac Warren was the father of Dr. Warren of Little Rock. John Means was accused of killing him, ...
Murder of Isaac Warren
From Goodspeed "In 1873 the first court-house at Powhatan, a large two-story brick structure, with offices below and ...
1873 Courthouse
In 1893, J.C. Smith was indicted for incest involving his niece Dollie McLaughlin. In August 1903, Joe Starr ...
Incest
The following churches were known to exist: 1875 Methodist Church - History
Churches
James A. Martin was the son of Felix G. Martin and was of the firm J.A. Martin & ...
James A. Martin
Wayland & Darter was a general merchandise business in Powhatan. The business failed in 1891 with assets of ...
Wayland & Darter
Green P. Nunn was an attorney practicing in Powhatan. He was partnered with Milton Dyer Baber.1 In 1852, ...
Green P. Nunn
Thomas C. Faulkner (1894-1918) was born in Denton, Arkansas but later moved to Powhatan. He served during World ...
Thomas C. Faulkner
The failure and liquidation of the Bank of Black Rock was a sensational legal case in the early ...
Bank of Black Rock Scandal
Henry White was convicted of the death of Charley Hale in 1898 in State of Arkansas v. Henry ...
State of Arkansas vs. Henry White (Murder of Charley Hale)
The schoolhouse is a single-story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof and a projecting front-gable section, ...
Powhatan Male and Female Academy
8 rapes were tried in Powhatan during its time as an active courthouse. November 1911: victim: Minnie Nichols. ...
Rape
Personal Life and Family James Rufus Eudaly was born in 1846 in Tennessee. He had arrived in Powhatan ...
J. Rufus Eudaly
Tanneries were an important part of the American economy in the 19th century. The Lawrence County tax records ...
Tanning Yards
On August 7, 1906, Alicia farmer John Hammond was found dead from a gunshot wound. A week after ...
Murder of John Hammond
Lon McCarrol was indicted and accused of killing George James on December 21, 1901 with a pistol. The ...
Murder of George James
Summary of Goodspeed Attorney and county examiner, born April 1, 1852. Came to Powhatan in 1882 and practiced ...
Charles C. Rogers
R.S. Madison was the Lawrence County Tax Collector in 1915. According to a contemporary newspaper, he was the ...
R.S. Madison
W.M. Steadman operated a general merchandise store in Powhatan in the early 1900s. By 1908 he had relocated ...
W.N. Steadman
John R. Long was the sheriff of Lawrence County in the early 1920s. The Arkansas Daily Gazette tells ...
John R. Long
In 1898 the following officials were elected Position Winner Votes Loser Votes Probate Judge Cunningham 1262 Pearce 558 ...
1898 County Elections
John W. Kelley was born to Marvel and Sally Kelly in Georgia in 1830. After his father died, ...
John W. Kelley
Charles Hall was a soldier from Lawrence County, one of over 70,000 men from Arkansas who served during ...
Charles Hall
Baber, Milton Dyer Balfour, Andrew Bennett, ZT Bovay, Harry Elmo Caldwell, Henry H Childers, Charles C Coffin, James ...
People of Powhatan - By Last Name
John McManus, George Roberts, and William Brooks were accused of the murder of Charles Buster in 1885. They ...
Murder of Charles Buster
The community was the economic hub of Lawrence County before its first platting in 1849. Situated on the ...
Powhatan, Arkansas
Mabel Lee Smith was found not guilty of the murder of her husband Charles Lee by poisoning strychnine ...
State of Arkansas vs. Mabel Lee Smith
Sidney Welch Smith was a resident of Powhatan. The Powhatan SP archive has a partial typescript which claims ...
Sidney Welch Normant
Larry Brown was a suspected robber from Lawrence County. Nothing is known about Brown's life before his brush ...
Larry Brown
Standing Historic Buildings in Powhatan Churches Hotels and Boarding Houses Mills Factories
Buildings of Powhatan
Francis Wayland was born in Lawrence County on October 7, 1846 to Rev. Jonathan Wayland from Virginia and ...
Francis Wayland
Webster Walker was a resident of Powhatan who died in 1886 while working at the Martin Brother's wagon ...
Webster Walker
William G. Mount was a resident of Powhatan. According to the Federal Census of 1870, he was listed ...
William G. Mount
J. Bowen Coffman was born in Hempstead County on November 17, 1861, son of Joseph W. Coffman. His ...
J. Bowen Coffman
This page will link to pages summarizing activities, and residents known to have occurred in their respective year. ...
Powhatan By Year
Also known as the Ficklin-Imboden house, this is a single-pen log structure with a gable roof, with a ...
Log House
Mose Thompson was charged with murder in the first degree for the killing of Bob Weir near Black ...
Murder of Bob Weir
Thomas Miller was killed by John Matlock. Matlock was described as a "new light" preacher, a "Mormon preacher" ...
Murder of Thomas Miller
More stuff needs to be added here. Is there anything unique about the cemetery or the people buried ...
Cemetery
The following was copied from the Lawrence County Historical Quarterly, Spring 2009. Vol. 13 No. 1. pp. 18-19. ...
James Barney Haley
Summary of Goodspeed Born August 12, 1823 in Georgia. He came to Powhatan in 1854. In 1876 he ...
Benjamin F. Matthews
H.H. Peden was a deputy postal clerk in Powhatan in 1883. He was charged with "depositing in the ...
H.H. Peden
Champ T. Stuart Jr. was the son of Champ T. Stuart Sr. He was born February 17, 1858 ...
Champ Terry Stuart Jr.
W.A. Townsend was county judge for Lawrence County. In 1897 he resided in Smithville and worked as a ...
W.A. Townsend
Summary from Mother of Counties Son of B.F. Matthews. Husband of Lavinia Martin (sister of J.A., J.W. Martin). ...
William Matthews
Due to the proximity to the Black River, Powhatan experienced several drownings in its heyday. In 1873, three ...
Drownings
The Democratic Primary of 1920 was a contested election in Lawrence County. The Forty-Third General Assembly of Arkansas ...
Democratic Primary Scandal of 1920
In 1912, the following individuals were elected Office Winner Succeeding Representative Jefferson D. Boyle J.J. Bellamy County/Probate Judge ...
1912 County Elections
Henry H. Caldwell was a resident of Walnut Ridge. He owned and operated a barber shop there until ...
Henry H. Caldwell
Philip K. Lester was a member of the Powhatan Lodge of Masons. He was born in 1819, the ...
Philip K. Lester
John A. Lindsay (July 7, 1820-February 14, 1894) was a soldier, land-owner, and businessman who lived in Powhatan.1 ...
John A. Lindsay
Dean Adams was a steamship that operated from 1880 to 1886. According to an issue of The Batesville ...
Dean Adams
William Drew Starr (1834-1876) was the jailer of Lawrence County. In 1875, Samuel Helms was convicted of murder ...
William Drew Starr
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