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Amity is a city in Clark County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 723 at the 2010 census . [ 3 ] The city began on the Caddo River in the mid-19th century when William F. Browning and others, including A.B. Clingman, at various times moved to the area.
The Old Bank of Amity is a historic commercial building at the northwest corner of the town square in Amity, Arkansas. It is a two-story red brick building with modest Italianate styling. It was built in 1906–07 and is the most prominent building of the period in the community.
Note: Unlike most Arkansas counties, Clark County has only one township. That township encompasses the entire county. Townships in Arkansas are the divisions of a county. Each township includes unincorporated areas; some may have incorporated cities or towns within part of their boundaries. Arkansas townships have limited purposes in modern times.
The Centerpoint School District is based in Rosboro, Arkansas, United States. The school district encompasses 209.66 square miles (543.0 km 2) of land including portions of Pike, Hot Spring, Garland, and Clark counties. Within Pike County, it serves almost all of Glenwood, and within Clark County it serves Amity and Alpine.
The Caddo River flows out of the Ouachita Mountains through Montgomery, Pike, and Clark counties in Arkansas before flowing into DeGray Lake and then to its terminus at the Ouachita River north of Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The upper Caddo is known as a good family canoeing river and is a popular destination for fishing.
The National Historic Landmarks in Arkansas represent Arkansas's history from the Louisiana Purchase through the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. It contains the landmarks designated by the U.S. Federal Government for the U.S. state of Arkansas. There are 17 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Arkansas.
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]
In August 2020, the Centerpoint Academy of Agriculture and Skilled Trades (CAAST) opened as a conversion charter school for students in grades 11–12. Funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Arkansas Public School Resource Center, CAAST is the only agricultural high school in the state of Arkansas. Knight-Reddie Scholarship