Part of Rush, Arkansas, the only ghost town located between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, will be “live” again soon, once a new National Park Service project is completed.
The old Hicks Hotel and Hicks General Store in Rush will be digitally reconstructed by University of Arkansas researchers as part of a project Continue reading
Reprinted here by special permission of the author, Cindy Beckman, a retired Conway High School history teacher who writes local history.
Marjorie “Margie” Wasson moved to Conway in her teens when her father, Harold Jesse Wasson, bought a dairy farm south of Conway. She attended Conway High but then went to Gulf Park College finishing school in Gulfport, Mississippi, graduating in 1950. She also Continue reading
75 YEARS AGO, August 2, 1966
♦ Conway’s newest and largest retail outlet, WalMart Discount City, opened with a grand opening ceremony attended among others by Sam Walton of Bentonville and Joe Siebenmorgen, Continue reading
Reprinted here by special permission of the author, Cindy Beckman, a retired Conway High School history teacher who writes local history.
Before the implementation of government assistance programs to help those in need, people who could not support themselves might be forced to go to the “poor farm.”
Almost every community had such a place and one was established in what would be Faulkner County shortly after the area became settled. It was located southwest of Conway and at one time, encompassed 160 acres. Continue reading
100 YEARS AGO, July, 1916
♦ A terrific bolt of lightning completely shattered an oak tree two feet in diameter close to the residence of C.H. Newbern, on Center street, during a thunderstorm Continue reading