On State Highway 27 at West Water Street, on the left when traveling north on State Highway 27.
Scotia was selected as the county seat in 1830, the year after the county was created. When Johnson County was formed in 1833, the county seat in Pope was moved to Dwight Mission, whence it was moved the next year to Morristown, on the north side of . . . — — Map (db m170741) HM
On East Ash Street west of 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east.
This Bois D'Arc tree is also known as an Osage Orange, Hedge Apple, or Bow Wood tree. Historically, the wood was used by Native Americans to make strong and resilient bows and arrows. The early settlers also used it to make hubs, spokes, fence . . . — — Map (db m225453) HM
On East Ash Street at 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east on East Ash Street.
Kirkbride Potts built Potts Inn in the 1850s and it served as a Butterfield Stage Route stop. When war began in 1861, Potts joined the Pope County Home Guard. Four sons were in the Confederate army. Thomas, Joseph and Richard Potts enlisted in the . . . — — Map (db m119958) HM
On East Ash Street at 2nd Street, on the left when traveling west on East Ash Street.
Kirkbride Potts, with help from his wife Pamelia Logan Potts, designed and constructed this large and stately building between 1850 and 1858. He patterned it after the Classical Revival style he knew in his home state of Pennsylvania; however, he . . . — — Map (db m120871) HM
On 2nd Street at East Ash Street, on the left when traveling north on 2nd Street.
Potts Inn John Kirkbride Potts (1803-1879) was born in Pennsylvania and moved to Arkansas in the 1820s. In 1828 he settled by Galla Creek, eventually acquiring 650 acres of land. Potts went to California in the Gold Rush of 1849: he failed to . . . — — Map (db m225451) HM
On East Ash Street at 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east on East Ash Street.
Historic stage coach tavern erected by Kirkbride Potts with slave labor. This tavern was a station on the Butterfield-Overland Mail. It was operated as a tavern both before and after the existence of the Butterfield-Overland Mail contract. It has . . . — — Map (db m225477) HM
Near Lock and Dam Road (Highway 7) just west of Sheppard Drive.
'The Arkansea' was a land of mystery, wonder and riches...
Back east rumors grew of the Arkansea, a land of vast swamps, gators, buffalo, elk, beaver, and more bear than could be imagined. There were huge flocks of green and yellow . . . — — Map (db m142029) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 64) at North Commerce Avenue, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
Late in the afternoon of January 17*, 1906, [see note below] a fire started in the Chronister Brothers grocery. Three hours later, twenty-two buildings, valued at two-hundred-fifty thousand dollars, were in ashes. Half of the central business . . . — — Map (db m225443) HM
On South Boston Avenue at East Main Place, on the right when traveling north on South Boston Avenue.
[First plaque]
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
[Second plaque]
In 1885 Rev. G.W. Harkey the first minister of this church had . . . — — Map (db m225446) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 64) east of South Phoenix Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
This property
J. Madison White
has been placed on the
National Register of
Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m225429) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 64) at South Denver Avenue, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
In 1854, Mr. J. L. Shinn established a business at this location in what was then called a cactus prairie. By 1870, other businesses had been established and residence had been built so the community was incorporated and was named Russellville, . . . — — Map (db m225435) HM
Near Lock and Dam Road (Highway 7) west of Sheppard Drive.
This stone is a marker from the old Military Road which extended from Little Rock to Ft. Smith. The marker was found west of Dardanelle in 1940 by Mr. Henry Sellers, District Highway Engineer, while supervising the construction of Arkansas Highway . . . — — Map (db m142032) HM
Near Lake Front Drive, 0.2 miles west of River Lane.
Pope County in the Civil War
Pope County soldiers served in at least 10 companies that were raised for Confederate service during the Civil War, fighting in battles east of the Mississippi River and in Arkansas. Two companies were . . . — — Map (db m119957) HM
Near Lock and Dam Road (Highway 7) west of Sheppard Drive.
The first steamboat to ascend the Arkansas River, the Comet, arrived at Arkansas Post on March 31, 1820, and river travel was transformed.
Two years later people in the new town of Little Rock were jubilant over the arrival of the first . . . — — Map (db m142031) HM
On Lock and Dam Road (Arkansas Route 7) at Old Post Park Road, on the left when traveling east on Lock and Dam Road. Reported unreadable.
The Cephas Washburn home stood a few hundred feet northeast of this cemetery. Washburn purchased this land in 1857, and spent the last years of his life residing here in Pope County. It was in this house that Edward Payson Washburn, Cephas . . . — — Map (db m225448) HM
Indian Agent Lovely and his wife, Persis, established a home in this immediate vicinity following his designation as agent for the Western Cherokees in 1813. He served as agent until his death in 1817. Lovely was born in Ireland, but came to the . . . — — Map (db m208620) HM
