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1875 Methodist Church - History
John William Martin
Murder of Arthur W. Shirey
Lucas Brooks Poindexter
Powhatan Suspension Bridge
1875 Methodist Church - Architecture
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
W.K. Surridge
George Walter Wells (b. 1868/9 , d. 1943) was the son of Dr. John R. Wells and Henrietta ...
George Walter Wells
John R. Wells (September 5, 1838- July 6, 1918) was a resident of Powhatan and a practicing doctor ...
John R. Wells
The courthouse sits on a rise overlooking the Black River. It is a two story brick building, set ...
1888 Courthouse
The following businesses are listed as existing in Powhatan during the following years. Sources from R.L. Polk's Arkansas ...
Businesses and Commerce
Steamboats were a vital part of Powhatan's history. Before the advent of automobiles and railroads, America's rivers were ...
Steamboats
The North Arkansas Telephone Company was formed in 1887 to provide telephone service between Black Rock, Portia, Powhatan, ...
North Arkansas Telephone Company
"Trusty No. 49"
Sanders J. Zimmerman
Frank C. Stuart was a resident of Powhatan and merchant, who likely owned the Commercial Building. He was ...
Frank Charles Stuart
Clay Sloan
The following individuals are listed by their professions listed on census records, or by what profession research has ...
People of Powhatan by Profession
Champ T. Stuart Sr. was born in 1810 and died in 1884. He is buried in the Powhatan ...
Champ T. Stuart Sr.
The following murders were tried in Powhatan. 1871- Murder of Henry Braswell 1873- Murder of George Coffman 1874- ...
Murders Tried in Powhatan
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
· Baber, Milton Dyer · Baird, William B. · Balfour, Andrew · Balfour, H.W. · Barnett, B.J.W. · ...
People of Powhatan by Name
Charles Augustus Stuart Sr. was born in Powhatan in 1841. He married Martha DeArman (daughter of John DeArman ...
Charles Augustus Stuart Sr.
Historic buildings in Powhatan include: 1888 Courthouse Powhatan Jail Log House Powhatan Male and Female Academy 1875 Methodist ...
Standing Buildings in Powhatan
Summary From Goodspeed: Democratic politician, born April 23, 1842. Moved to Lawrence County in 1869. Son of Charles ...
Charles Coffin
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
Charles H. Coffin was the son of James Park Coffin and brother of Maxwell Coffin2. He attended Arkansas ...
Charles H. Coffin
The following is a list of Lawrence County Clerks from 1888 to 1965. Clay Sloan (1888-1890) J.Bowen Coffman ...
County Clerks
John L. Wells was born in Powhatan in 1871. He was the son of Dr. John R. Wells ...
John L Wells
Businesses and Commerce Banks Drug Stores Merchants Farms Grocers Hotels and Boarding Houses Laundries Manufacturers Masons Mills Newspapers ...
Business of Powhatan
The Powhatan Woolen Manufacturing Company manufactured jeans, tweeds, cassimeres, flannels, blankets and shawls in Powhatan in the late ...
The Powhatan Woolen Manufacturing Company
H.H. Collins was the deputy circuit clerk in Powhatan beginning in 1922. He succeeded E.H. Hall after he ...
H.H. Collins
The following crimes were tried in Powhatan during its time as county seat. Current records are indexed from ...
Crime
The following is a chronological list of Lawrence County Judges that served in the courthouse at Powhatan. W.A. ...
Judges
Silas and Beth Gaza were accused of murdering Carlos Conklin on January 13, 1883 in Lawrence County. According ...
Murder of Carlos Conklin
The following hotels and boarding houses were known to exist in Powhatan: J.Rufus Eudaly's Hotel (1906) Rex Boarding ...
Hotels and Boarding Houses
John S. Ficklin (1804-1846) was a merchant, politician, and soldier from Lawrence County, Arkansas who is considered by ...
John S. Ficklin
Winthrop Rockefeller and Powhatan
Sam Milton Payne
Transportation Bridges Ferries Roads Steamboats
Transportation
In the 1870 County election the following men were nominated for candidacy Joseph Judkins for Sheriff Champ T. ...
1870 County Elections
Frank Stuart Wells was born April 29, 1882 in Powhatan, Arkansas. He was the son of Dr. John ...
Frank Stuart Wells
F.W. Tucker
Charles C Childers
J.M. Percival
Helen M. King (1895-1988) was a rug-hooking artist. She was born in Powhatan on September 20, 1895. She ...
Helen Martin King
People of Powhatan Alphabetical Order By Profession By Census Year
People of Powhatan
From Wikipedia This is a single-story brick building, standing at a historically major street corner in Powhatan. It ...
Commercial Building
George Thornburgh (January 25, 1847--March 9, 1923) was a politician, soldier, educator, and resident of Powhatan. Early Life ...
George Thornburgh
Aaron Whitney was a resident of Lawrence County, Arkansas. On the night of August 26, 1842, his body ...
Murder of Aaron Whitney
Beth Goza was a resident of Lawrence County, Arkansas and suspected murderer. On June 13, 1883, Beth was ...
Beth Goza
The Powhatan Weekly Advertiser was a weekly newspaper published in Powhatan, Arkansas. It was a short-lived venture, printed ...
Powhatan Weekly Advertiser
Maxwell Coffin was a prominent real estate agent in Little Rock, born in Powhatan to James Park Coffin. ...
Maxwell Coffin
Summary from Mother of Counties F.G. was father of Josiah Martin. Owned wagon business in Powhatan. Later sold ...
Felix G. Martin
Laura Wells was born in Powhatan on October 8, 1866. She was the daughter of Dr. John R. ...
Laura Wells
Lewis K. Coffman was born in 1837 in Muhlenberg Co. Kentucky. By 1860, he was residing in Lawrence ...
Lewis K. Coffman
For much of its early life, Arkansas did not have a formal, organized public education system. Private establishments ...
Lawrence County School Districts
Stella Coffman was born in 1873. She was the daughter of Lewis K. Coffman and Martha Ruby. She ...
Stella Coffman
Ada Wells was born in 1874 in Powhatan, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Dr. John R. Wells ...
Ada Wells
James A. Martin & Bros was a wagon, carriage, and farm implement manufacturer based in Powhatan. It was ...
James A Martin & Bros - Wagon Manufacturing
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
The lynching of Andrew Springer was an extra-judicial hanging that occurred in Powhatan on May 21, 1887. Incident ...
The Lynching of Andrew Springer
Most of this information came from "The Doctrine of Creative Destruction: Ferry and Bridge Law in Arkansas" by ...
Harry E. Bovay
Mose Thompson was charged with murder in the first degree for the killing of Bob Weir near Black ...
Murder of Bob Weir
Thomas C. Faulkner (1894-1918) was born in Denton, Arkansas but later moved to Powhatan. He served during World ...
Thomas C. Faulkner
The following was copied from the Lawrence County Historical Quarterly, Spring 2009. Vol. 13 No. 1. pp. 18-19. ...
James Barney Haley
Isaac Warren was the father of Dr. Warren of Little Rock. John Means was accused of killing him, ...
Murder of Isaac Warren
Summary from "Mother of Counties" Owned a two story home overlooking Black River in Powhatan. Served as mayor ...
George W Flippo
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 James Grigsby Gang was a criminal organization that operated in northeast Arkansas between 1886 and 1891.[1] The ...
James Grigsby Gang
J. Bowen Coffman was born in Hempstead County on November 17, 1861, son of Joseph W. Coffman. His ...
J. Bowen Coffman
Some say the first improved road in Arkansas was from Powhatan towards to Crowley's Ridge and was known ...
Roads
Titania was a 14-steamer built in Pittsburgh in 1856. She was purchased by John D. Adams to handle ...
Titania
Jack LeMay was a deputy sheriff of Powhatan in 1921. He was fined for carrying and potentially brandishing ...
Jack LeMay
Summary from Goodspeed John H. Martin was a merchant and postmaster of Powhatan. He was born June 17, ...
John H. Martin
Robert E. Craig (1824-1837) is the earliest recorded death at Powhatan (if current evidence is correct and the ...
Robert Emmett Craig
Mabel Lee Smith was found not guilty of the murder of her husband Charles Lee by poisoning strychnine ...
State of Arkansas vs. Mabel Lee Smith
Joseph D. Boothe was a resident of Powhatan, originally from Indiana. Nothing is known about his life except ...
Joseph D. Boothe
Lon McCarrol was indicted and accused of killing George James on December 21, 1901 with a pistol. The ...
Murder of George James
The following churches were known to exist: 1875 Methodist Church - History
Churches
Henry H. Caldwell was a resident of Walnut Ridge. He owned and operated a barber shop there until ...
Henry H. Caldwell
Philip K. Lester was a member of the Powhatan Lodge of Masons. He was born in 1819, the ...
Philip K. Lester
Dave Donigan was murdered by Dan Allen on November 20, 1898. Governor Jones offered a reward of 100 ...
Murder of Dave Donigan
Summary from Mother of Counties Son of B.F. Matthews. Husband of Lavinia Martin (sister of J.A., J.W. Martin). ...
William Matthews
Summary from Goodspeed John K. Gibson was an attorney and real estate dealer based in Powhatan. Born in ...
John K Gibson
E.L. King was a veterinarian residing in Powhatan around 1910. He placed numerous ads in papers advertising his ...
E.L. King
Douglas Horton was a blacksmith who lived in Powhatan at the turn of the 20th Century. On August ...
Douglas Horton
Wayland & Darter was a general merchandise business in Powhatan. The business failed in 1891 with assets of ...
Wayland & Darter
James A. Martin was the son of Felix G. Martin and was of the firm J.A. Martin & ...
James A. Martin
8 rapes were tried in Powhatan during its time as an active courthouse. November 1911: victim: Minnie Nichols. ...
Rape
John W. Kelley was born to Marvel and Sally Kelly in Georgia in 1830. After his father died, ...
John W. Kelley
R.S. Madison was the Lawrence County Tax Collector in 1915. According to a contemporary newspaper, he was the ...
R.S. Madison
Green P. Nunn was an attorney practicing in Powhatan. He was partnered with Milton Dyer Baber.1 In 1852, ...
Green P. Nunn
In late 19th and early 20th centuries, natural pearls were rare and valuable. The pearl rush that swept ...
Pearling and Button Making
Standing Historic Buildings in Powhatan Churches Hotels and Boarding Houses Mills Factories
Buildings of Powhatan
Ella Hetch was a steamer built in Pocahontas, Arkansas in 1870. Her capacity was 125 bales.[1] She was ...
Ella Hecht
"Dr. Coffman practiced medicine in Powhatan for 12 years, leaving for Black Rock in 1883, where entered the ...
James Coffman
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