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History. Old Main was constructed between 1873 and 1875 as part of a land grant for the state of Arkansas. [4] At this time it was known as University Hall. [2] It was designed by Chicago architect John Mills Van Osdel, [3] and construction was carried out by William Mayes of the firm of Mayes and Oliver. [5] G.
Old Main Lawn near Ozark Hall. Old Main Lawn is an area surrounding Old Main on the University of Arkansas campus. Prior to 1872, the land was known as the McIlroy Farm. It was purchased for use as a university campus because of its prominence (the campus is still referred to as "The Hill").
Baxter-Dixon House 212 Spring St. Melbourne Izard 1883 6/2/1995 Bayou Meto Schoolhouse 1178 Highway 276 Bayou Meto Arkansas 1932 4/2/2003 Bear Creek Church County Road 224 (Bear Creek Cemetery Road) Evening Shade vic. Sharp c. 1917 3/3/1995 Beard House 1890 Pumpkin Hill Road Rison vic. Cleveland c.1870 12/5/2012 Beebe Colored School
Meinrad Craighead was born Charlene Marie Craighead [2] on February 12, 1936, in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The daughter of Marie Catherine Engster and Charles O'Connor Craighead Jr., she was the eldest of three girls in a Catholic family. Craighead's family moved to Houston, Texas a few years after her birth. [3]
The fort was several blocks south of the main part of the post of Fort Scott. [3] Fort Blair was used to guard Fort Scott when Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price passed through the area in late October 1864 near the end of his failed raid into Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas (see Price's Missouri Raid). Price wanted to overrun the defenders at ...
Artists' charcoal is charcoal used as a dry art medium. Both compressed charcoal (held together by a gum or wax binder) and charcoal sticks (wooden sticks burned in a kiln without air) are used. [1] The marks it leaves behind on paper are much less permanent than with other media such as graphite, and so lines can easily be erased and blended ...
Arkansas Union. The Arkansas Union, (sometimes referred to simply as the union) is at the center of campus and student life.It contains a large computer lab with over 70 computers, a coffee shop (Hill Coffee Co.), the campus multicultural center, movie theater, auditorium, ballroom, food court, bus station, post office, offices for student government and student organizations, a satellite ...
December 9, 1997 [2] The Old State House, formerly called the Arkansas State House, is the oldest surviving state capitol building west of the Mississippi River. It was the site of the secession convention, as well as the fourth constitutional convention when delegates agreed to ensure voting rights for freedmen and establish public education.