Category Archives: Arkansas

We visited here just for the passport stamp. It’s definitely a BCP park, with one short trail sandwiched in. We stopped in the tiny visitor center/gift shop to get my passport stamped. There were three fish tanks with live snakes … Continue reading →

Our chief reason for visiting Wilson was to see this museum and get my passport stamp. The museum lined the walls of one room — and that was it. Some guy named Hampson was working on his land and found … Continue reading →

Wilson, Arkansas, was built as a company town for a cotton company. When the the founder’s son honeymooned in England in 1925, the downtown buildings were redesigned in Tudor style. One of the buildings that faces the square is the … Continue reading →

During the Great Depression of the 1930’s, the federal government established nearly 100 resettlement communities around the country (12 in Arkansas). Resettlement Colony No. 1, in northeast Arkansas, was the largest, with about 500 families. When William Dyess, Arkansas administrator … Continue reading →

This museum tells the history of the Walnut Ridge Army Flying School that operated on an airfield here for two years during WWII. Just after I arrived, a torrential rainstorm swept through, so I wasn’t in any hurry to leave. … Continue reading →