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1875 Methodist Church - History
John William Martin
Murder of Arthur W. Shirey
Lucas Brooks Poindexter
Powhatan Suspension Bridge
George Walter Wells (b. 1868/9 , d. 1943) was the son of Dr. John R. Wells and Henrietta ...
George Walter Wells
W.K. Surridge
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
James P. Coffin was the county clerk and commissioner of public buildings in Powhatan. In 1879, he was ...
James Park Coffin
1875 Methodist Church - Architecture
Sanders J. Zimmerman
The North Arkansas Telephone Company was formed in 1887 to provide telephone service between Black Rock, Portia, Powhatan, ...
North Arkansas Telephone Company
· Baber, Milton Dyer · Baird, William B. · Balfour, Andrew · Balfour, H.W. · Barnett, B.J.W. · ...
People of Powhatan by Name
"Trusty No. 49"
The following individuals are listed by their professions listed on census records, or by what profession research has ...
People of Powhatan by Profession
The jail, located a short walk from the courthouse, is a small single-story limestone and concrete structure with ...
Powhatan Jail
Black River and Lower Mississippi Floods of 1890
The following businesses are listed as existing in Powhatan during the following years. Sources from R.L. Polk's Arkansas ...
Businesses and Commerce
Clay Sloan
The following murders were tried in Powhatan. 1871- Murder of Henry Braswell 1873- Murder of George Coffman 1874- ...
Murders Tried in Powhatan
Champ T. Stuart Sr. was born in 1810 and died in 1884. He is buried in the Powhatan ...
Champ T. Stuart Sr.
The courthouse sits on a rise overlooking the Black River. It is a two story brick building, set ...
1888 Courthouse
Historic buildings in Powhatan include: 1888 Courthouse Powhatan Jail Log House Powhatan Male and Female Academy 1875 Methodist ...
Standing Buildings in Powhatan
Charles Augustus Stuart Sr. was born in Powhatan in 1841. He married Martha DeArman (daughter of John DeArman ...
Charles Augustus Stuart Sr.
Summary From Goodspeed: Democratic politician, born April 23, 1842. Moved to Lawrence County in 1869. Son of Charles ...
Charles Coffin
Steamboats were a vital part of Powhatan's history. Before the advent of automobiles and railroads, America's rivers were ...
Steamboats
Frank C. Stuart was a resident of Powhatan and merchant, who likely owned the Commercial Building. He was ...
Frank Charles Stuart
George Thornburgh (January 25, 1847--March 9, 1923) was a politician, soldier, educator, and resident of Powhatan. Early Life ...
George Thornburgh
Charles H. Coffin was the son of James Park Coffin and brother of Maxwell Coffin2. He attended Arkansas ...
Charles H. Coffin
Businesses and Commerce Banks Drug Stores Merchants Farms Grocers Hotels and Boarding Houses Laundries Manufacturers Masons Mills Newspapers ...
Business of Powhatan
Charles C Childers
Transportation Bridges Ferries Roads Steamboats
Transportation
Maxwell Coffin was a prominent real estate agent in Little Rock, born in Powhatan to James Park Coffin. ...
Maxwell Coffin
Winthrop Rockefeller and Powhatan
In the 1870 County election the following men were nominated for candidacy Joseph Judkins for Sheriff Champ T. ...
1870 County Elections
The following crimes were tried in Powhatan during its time as county seat. Current records are indexed from ...
Crime
From Wikipedia This is a single-story brick building, standing at a historically major street corner in Powhatan. It ...
Commercial Building
F.W. Tucker
Helen M. King (1895-1988) was a rug-hooking artist. She was born in Powhatan on September 20, 1895. She ...
Helen Martin King
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
Lewis K. Coffman was born in 1837 in Muhlenberg Co. Kentucky. By 1860, he was residing in Lawrence ...
Lewis K. Coffman
J.M. Percival
John L. Wells was born in Powhatan in 1871. He was the son of Dr. John R. Wells ...
John L Wells
The following hotels and boarding houses were known to exist in Powhatan: J.Rufus Eudaly's Hotel (1906) Rex Boarding ...
Hotels and Boarding Houses
H.H. Collins was the deputy circuit clerk in Powhatan beginning in 1922. He succeeded E.H. Hall after he ...
H.H. Collins
For much of its early life, Arkansas did not have a formal, organized public education system. Private establishments ...
Lawrence County School Districts
Ada Wells was born in 1874 in Powhatan, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Dr. John R. Wells ...
Ada Wells
Most of this information came from "The Doctrine of Creative Destruction: Ferry and Bridge Law in Arkansas" by ...
Harry E. Bovay
Frank Stuart Wells was born April 29, 1882 in Powhatan, Arkansas. He was the son of Dr. John ...
Frank Stuart Wells
The Powhatan Weekly Advertiser was a weekly newspaper published in Powhatan, Arkansas. It was a short-lived venture, printed ...
Powhatan Weekly Advertiser
Laura Wells was born in Powhatan on October 8, 1866. She was the daughter of Dr. John R. ...
Laura Wells
James A. Martin & Bros was a wagon, carriage, and farm implement manufacturer based in Powhatan. It was ...
James A Martin & Bros - Wagon Manufacturing
Aaron Whitney was a resident of Lawrence County, Arkansas. On the night of August 26, 1842, his body ...
Murder of Aaron Whitney
The lynching of Andrew Springer was an extra-judicial hanging that occurred in Powhatan on May 21, 1887. Incident ...
The Lynching of Andrew Springer
The Powhatan Woolen Manufacturing Company manufactured jeans, tweeds, cassimeres, flannels, blankets and shawls in Powhatan in the late ...
The Powhatan Woolen Manufacturing Company
Beth Goza was a resident of Lawrence County, Arkansas and suspected murderer. On June 13, 1883, Beth was ...
Beth Goza
John S. Ficklin (1804-1846) was a merchant, politician, and soldier from Lawrence County, Arkansas who is considered by ...
John S. Ficklin
Sam Milton Payne
Silas and Beth Gaza were accused of murdering Carlos Conklin on January 13, 1883 in Lawrence County. According ...
Murder of Carlos Conklin
Summary from Mother of Counties F.G. was father of Josiah Martin. Owned wagon business in Powhatan. Later sold ...
Felix G. Martin
The following is a chronological list of Lawrence County Judges that served in the courthouse at Powhatan. W.A. ...
Judges
The following is a list of Lawrence County Clerks from 1888 to 1965. Clay Sloan (1888-1890) J.Bowen Coffman ...
County Clerks
People of Powhatan Alphabetical Order By Profession By Census Year
People of Powhatan
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
Stella Coffman was born in 1873. She was the daughter of Lewis K. Coffman and Martha Ruby. She ...
Stella Coffman
Summary of Goodspeed Born August 12, 1823 in Georgia. He came to Powhatan in 1854. In 1876 he ...
Benjamin F. Matthews
Standing Historic Buildings in Powhatan Churches Hotels and Boarding Houses Mills Factories
Buildings of Powhatan
On Sunday February 28, 1875, around 4 am, a fire broke out in downtown Powhatan that destroyed much ...
The Fire of 1875
This page will link to pages summarizing activities, and residents known to have occurred in their respective year. ...
Powhatan By Year
The James Grigsby Gang was a criminal organization that operated in northeast Arkansas between 1886 and 1891.[1] The ...
James Grigsby Gang
Personal Life and Family James Rufus Eudaly was born in 1846 in Tennessee. He had arrived in Powhatan ...
J. Rufus Eudaly
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
The Powhatan Weekly Visitor was a newspaper in Lawrence County, Arkansas founded by J.C. Shook in 1857. Source: ...
Powhatan Visitor
The failure and liquidation of the Bank of Black Rock was a sensational legal case in the early ...
Bank of Black Rock Scandal
Wayland & Darter was a general merchandise business in Powhatan. The business failed in 1891 with assets of ...
Wayland & Darter
This page relates to the history of Lawrence County and Northeast Arkansas as it pertains to the Civil ...
Civil War
The Spring River Valley, which comprises the western line of the Black River valley is bordered by a ...
Mining
On August 7, 1906, Alicia farmer John Hammond was found dead from a gunshot wound. A week after ...
Murder of John Hammond
William Drew Starr (1834-1876) was the jailer of Lawrence County. In 1875, Samuel Helms was convicted of murder ...
William Drew Starr
Summary from "Mother of Counties" Owned a two story home overlooking Black River in Powhatan. Served as mayor ...
George W Flippo
Webster Walker was a resident of Powhatan who died in 1886 while working at the Martin Brother's wagon ...
Webster Walker
The location of the county seat for Lawrence County has been contentious over the years. From the early ...
County Seat Relocation
Dave Donigan was murdered by Dan Allen on November 20, 1898. Governor Jones offered a reward of 100 ...
Murder of Dave Donigan
The following was copied from the Lawrence County Historical Quarterly, Spring 2009. Vol. 13 No. 1. pp. 18-19. ...
James Barney Haley
James McCall was sheriff of Lawrence County in 1902-1903. 1902: removed an unnamed African American male from Powhatan ...
James McCall
W.M. Steadman operated a general merchandise store in Powhatan in the early 1900s. By 1908 he had relocated ...
W.N. Steadman
"Powhatan Manufacturing Company" formed on June 1st, 1874. Formed for the purpose of general milling and cotton factory. ...
Mills
H.H. Peden was a deputy postal clerk in Powhatan in 1883. He was charged with "depositing in the ...
H.H. Peden
Philip K. Lester was a member of the Powhatan Lodge of Masons. He was born in 1819, the ...
Philip K. Lester
Henry White was convicted of the death of Charley Hale in 1898 in State of Arkansas v. Henry ...
State of Arkansas vs. Henry White (Murder of Charley Hale)
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
The Democratic Primary of 1920 was a contested election in Lawrence County. The Forty-Third General Assembly of Arkansas ...
Democratic Primary Scandal of 1920
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 Son of B.F. Matthews. Husband of Lavinia Martin (sister of J.A., J.W. Martin). ...
William Matthews
Thomas Tewell murdered Lewis Cisssel on Christmas Day 1883. At the celebration of a wedding, Tewell arrived at ...
Murder of Lewis Cissel
What do you know about The Civil War and Powhatan? 1861- Confederate In july 1861, Captain Elliot Fletcher ...
The Civil War and Powhatan
From Goodspeed "In 1873 the first court-house at Powhatan, a large two-story brick structure, with offices below and ...
1873 Courthouse
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