Author Archives: Roger

Cane Creek lake was created in 1973 by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, using federal funds. It sits on the border between the West Gulf Coastal Plain (primarily timberlands) and the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (the Delta farmland). If you … Continue reading →

This museum and its artifacts were once the Arkansas County Museum until the state took it over. Like any county museum, it has it dresses and uniforms donated by locals, a mock-up of a doctor’s office and general store, antique … Continue reading →

I discovered this place on Roadside America, which included it because it’s the official adoption center for Big Mouth Billy Bass. These were novelty gifts in the early 2000’s, which consisted of an animatronic bass on a wall plaque that … Continue reading →

This floating museum on the Arkansas River in North Little Rock consists of a small exhibit room on a barge and two vessels — USS Razorback submarine and USS Hoga, a tugboat. The Razorback was commissioned in 1944 and saw … Continue reading →

Junction Bridge, which crossed the Arkansas River from Little Rock to North Little Rock, was built in 1884 as a railroad bridge. The Little Rock end of it was actually anchored in “the little rock,” the outcropping that gave the … Continue reading →