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1875 Methodist Church - History
Lucas Brooks Poindexter
John William Martin
Murder of Arthur W. Shirey
Powhatan Suspension Bridge
W.K. Surridge
1875 Methodist Church - Architecture
George Walter Wells (b. 1868/9 , d. 1943) was the son of Dr. John R. Wells and Henrietta ...
George Walter Wells
James P. Coffin was the county clerk and commissioner of public buildings in Powhatan. In 1879, he was ...
James Park Coffin
John R. Wells (September 5, 1838- July 6, 1918) was a resident of Powhatan and a practicing doctor ...
John R. Wells
Milton Dyer Baber (always referred to after his service in the CSA as Colonel Baber) was born on ...
Milton Dyer Baber
The jail, located a short walk from the courthouse, is a small single-story limestone and concrete structure with ...
Powhatan Jail
The following individuals are listed by their professions listed on census records, or by what profession research has ...
People of Powhatan by Profession
Clay Sloan
Charles Augustus Stuart Sr. was born in Powhatan in 1841. He married Martha DeArman (daughter of John DeArman ...
Charles Augustus Stuart Sr.
The North Arkansas Telephone Company was formed in 1887 to provide telephone service between Black Rock, Portia, Powhatan, ...
North Arkansas Telephone Company
The following murders were tried in Powhatan. 1871- Murder of Henry Braswell 1873- Murder of George Coffman 1874- ...
Murders Tried in Powhatan
Frank C. Stuart was a resident of Powhatan and merchant, who likely owned the Commercial Building. He was ...
Frank Charles Stuart
Summary From Goodspeed: Democratic politician, born April 23, 1842. Moved to Lawrence County in 1869. Son of Charles ...
Charles Coffin
The courthouse sits on a rise overlooking the Black River. It is a two story brick building, set ...
1888 Courthouse
Sanders J. Zimmerman
· Baber, Milton Dyer · Baird, William B. · Balfour, Andrew · Balfour, H.W. · Barnett, B.J.W. · ...
People of Powhatan by Name
Champ T. Stuart Sr. was born in 1810 and died in 1884. He is buried in the Powhatan ...
Champ T. Stuart Sr.
"Trusty No. 49"
Steamboats were a vital part of Powhatan's history. Before the advent of automobiles and railroads, America's rivers were ...
Steamboats
The following businesses are listed as existing in Powhatan during the following years. Sources from R.L. Polk's Arkansas ...
Businesses and Commerce
Historic buildings in Powhatan include: 1888 Courthouse Powhatan Jail Log House Powhatan Male and Female Academy 1875 Methodist ...
Standing Buildings in Powhatan
Black River and Lower Mississippi Floods of 1890
The following hotels and boarding houses were known to exist in Powhatan: J.Rufus Eudaly's Hotel (1906) Rex Boarding ...
Hotels and Boarding Houses
F.W. Tucker
Harry Gray v White and Black Rivers Bridge Company was a lawsuit brought before the Lawrence Circuit Court ...
Harry Gray v. White and Black Rivers Bridge Company
Aaron Whitney was a resident of Lawrence County, Arkansas. On the night of August 26, 1842, his body ...
Murder of Aaron Whitney
Stella Coffman was born in 1873. She was the daughter of Lewis K. Coffman and Martha Ruby. She ...
Stella Coffman
J.M. Percival
From Wikipedia This is a single-story brick building, standing at a historically major street corner in Powhatan. It ...
Commercial Building
John S. Ficklin (1804-1846) was a merchant, politician, and soldier from Lawrence County, Arkansas who is considered by ...
John S. Ficklin
James A. Martin & Bros was a wagon, carriage, and farm implement manufacturer based in Powhatan. It was ...
James A Martin & Bros - Wagon Manufacturing
The following crimes were tried in Powhatan during its time as county seat. Current records are indexed from ...
Crime
George Thornburgh (January 25, 1847--March 9, 1923) was a politician, soldier, educator, and resident of Powhatan. Early Life ...
George Thornburgh
H.H. Collins was the deputy circuit clerk in Powhatan beginning in 1922. He succeeded E.H. Hall after he ...
H.H. Collins
Beth Goza was a resident of Lawrence County, Arkansas and suspected murderer. On June 13, 1883, Beth was ...
Beth Goza
John L. Wells was born in Powhatan in 1871. He was the son of Dr. John R. Wells ...
John L Wells
Lewis K. Coffman was born in 1837 in Muhlenberg Co. Kentucky. By 1860, he was residing in Lawrence ...
Lewis K. Coffman
Ada Wells was born in 1874 in Powhatan, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Dr. John R. Wells ...
Ada Wells
Transportation Bridges Ferries Roads Steamboats
Transportation
Silas and Beth Gaza were accused of murdering Carlos Conklin on January 13, 1883 in Lawrence County. According ...
Murder of Carlos Conklin
Frank Stuart Wells was born April 29, 1882 in Powhatan, Arkansas. He was the son of Dr. John ...
Frank Stuart Wells
Laura Wells was born in Powhatan on October 8, 1866. She was the daughter of Dr. John R. ...
Laura Wells
The following is a list of Lawrence County Clerks from 1888 to 1965. Clay Sloan (1888-1890) J.Bowen Coffman ...
County Clerks
Sam Milton Payne
In the 1870 County election the following men were nominated for candidacy Joseph Judkins for Sheriff Champ T. ...
1870 County Elections
For much of its early life, Arkansas did not have a formal, organized public education system. Private establishments ...
Lawrence County School Districts
The Powhatan Weekly Advertiser was a weekly newspaper published in Powhatan, Arkansas. It was a short-lived venture, printed ...
Powhatan Weekly Advertiser
Charles C Childers
The following is a chronological list of Lawrence County Judges that served in the courthouse at Powhatan. W.A. ...
Judges
Summary from Mother of Counties F.G. was father of Josiah Martin. Owned wagon business in Powhatan. Later sold ...
Felix G. Martin
Most of this information came from "The Doctrine of Creative Destruction: Ferry and Bridge Law in Arkansas" by ...
Harry E. Bovay
People of Powhatan Alphabetical Order By Profession By Census Year
People of Powhatan
The lynching of Andrew Springer was an extra-judicial hanging that occurred in Powhatan on May 21, 1887. Incident ...
The Lynching of Andrew Springer
Helen M. King (1895-1988) was a rug-hooking artist. She was born in Powhatan on September 20, 1895. She ...
Helen Martin King
Businesses and Commerce Banks Drug Stores Merchants Farms Grocers Hotels and Boarding Houses Laundries Manufacturers Masons Mills Newspapers ...
Business of Powhatan
Charles H. Coffin was the son of James Park Coffin and brother of Maxwell Coffin2. He attended Arkansas ...
Charles H. Coffin
The Powhatan Woolen Manufacturing Company manufactured jeans, tweeds, cassimeres, flannels, blankets and shawls in Powhatan in the late ...
The Powhatan Woolen Manufacturing Company
Winthrop Rockefeller and Powhatan
William P. Campbell (1838-1896) was a soldier and druggist who lived in Powhatan with his brother-in-law, J.M. Percival.1 ...
W.P. Campbell
Maxwell Coffin was a prominent real estate agent in Little Rock, born in Powhatan to James Park Coffin. ...
Maxwell Coffin
In late 19th and early 20th centuries, natural pearls were rare and valuable. The pearl rush that swept ...
Pearling and Button Making
Douglas Horton was a blacksmith who lived in Powhatan at the turn of the 20th Century. On August ...
Douglas Horton
The North Arkansas Mining Company was incorporated in 1867. John F. Harrison of Pocahontas was president, J.E. Thompson ...
North Arkansas Mining Company
Some say the first improved road in Arkansas was from Powhatan towards to Crowley's Ridge and was known ...
Roads
Thomas Miller was killed by John Matlock. Matlock was described as a "new light" preacher, a "Mormon preacher" ...
Murder of Thomas Miller
Isaac Warren was the father of Dr. Warren of Little Rock. John Means was accused of killing him, ...
Murder of Isaac Warren
Larry Brown was a suspected robber from Lawrence County. Nothing is known about Brown's life before his brush ...
Larry Brown
The Powhatan Zinc and Lead Mining Company incorporated in June 1906. The company was capitalized at $100,000. Incorporators ...
Powhatan Zinc and Lead Mining Company
Joseph D. Boothe was a resident of Powhatan, originally from Indiana. Nothing is known about his life except ...
Joseph D. Boothe
More stuff needs to be added here. Is there anything unique about the cemetery or the people buried ...
Cemetery
The murder of Alfred "Perry Oaks" is also known as State of Arkansas v. Ida Oaks. Ida was ...
Murder of Alfred "Perry" Oaks
Dolly Varden was a steamer that operated on the Black River. She does not appear in Way’s Packet ...
Dolly Varden
Bob Doyle, a deputy sheriff, was stabbed to death by Joe Mize in April 1899. The two men ...
Murder of Bob Doyle
The Democratic Primary of 1920 was a contested election in Lawrence County. The Forty-Third General Assembly of Arkansas ...
Democratic Primary Scandal of 1920
From Goodspeed "In 1873 the first court-house at Powhatan, a large two-story brick structure, with offices below and ...
1873 Courthouse
Willis Matthews was a partner in the firm Weir & Matthews. He was born in Lawrence County on ...
Willis B. Matthews
John A. Lindsay (July 7, 1820-February 14, 1894) was a soldier, land-owner, and businessman who lived in Powhatan.1 ...
John A. Lindsay
The James Grigsby Gang was a criminal organization that operated in northeast Arkansas between 1886 and 1891.[1] The ...
James Grigsby Gang
On August 7, 1906, Alicia farmer John Hammond was found dead from a gunshot wound. A week after ...
Murder of John Hammond
In February 1923, the Arkansas legislature passed Act 430, requiring all citizens to register their handguns with the ...
Gun Permits
This page relates to the history of Lawrence County and Northeast Arkansas as it pertains to the Civil ...
Civil War
The schoolhouse is a single-story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof and a projecting front-gable section, ...
Powhatan Male and Female Academy
E.H. Hall was the deputy circuit clerk in Powhatan until 1922, when he resigned. Sources: "Deputy Clerk Resigns." ...
E.H. Hall
W.A. Townsend was county judge for Lawrence County. In 1897 he resided in Smithville and worked as a ...
W.A. Townsend
John W. Kelley was born to Marvel and Sally Kelly in Georgia in 1830. After his father died, ...
John W. Kelley
Titania was a 14-steamer built in Pittsburgh in 1856. She was purchased by John D. Adams to handle ...
Titania
Act No. 85 was a law enacted by the State of Arkansas on March 26, 1887. It divided ...
Act No. 85
E.L. King was a veterinarian residing in Powhatan around 1910. He placed numerous ads in papers advertising his ...
E.L. King
Summary from "Mother of Counties" Owned a two story home overlooking Black River in Powhatan. Served as mayor ...
George W Flippo
James McCall was sheriff of Lawrence County in 1902-1903. 1902: removed an unnamed African American male from Powhatan ...
James McCall
Webster Walker was a resident of Powhatan who died in 1886 while working at the Martin Brother's wagon ...
Webster Walker
"Powhatan Manufacturing Company" formed on June 1st, 1874. Formed for the purpose of general milling and cotton factory. ...
Mills
Champ T. Stuart Jr. was the son of Champ T. Stuart Sr. He was born February 17, 1858 ...
Champ Terry Stuart Jr.
William Bell was a resident of Powhatan in 1902. He died of illness in Hoxie while riding the ...
William Bell
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