1890s, Photo Search
Harmon Liveright Remmel (1859-1927) and his brother Augustus had learned the lumber business in Indiana before moving to Arkansas. In 1896, Harmon left the lumber business and moved to Little Rock, where he quickly became an important force in Republican Party...
1880s, Photo Search
This photograph of the Remmel Brothers Lumber Company is one of the earliest images of downtown Newport. Harmon Remmel and his brother Augustus came to Jackson County from New York in 1874 and made a fortune in the lumber business, capitalizing on the depressed...
1870s, Photo Search
Some steamboats carried as many as 125 passengers and 2,000 bales of cotton. When they came up the river, they carried thousands of sacks of salt along with cargo of sugar, molasses, and dry goods, which they could trade in the backcountry, before loading up with...
1870s, Photo Search
Early Jackson County chronicler W.E. Bevens describes the steamboats this way: “To those early pioneers, so long forced to do without luxuries, they seemed the acme of elegance, with their bands of music, their calliopes, handsome cabins, tables adorned with...
1870s, Photo Search
The steamboat Walt was a truly elegant steamer. Its 43 staterooms were lavishly furnished, but the 10 set aside for women were fitted like rooms in a fine hotel, with imported furnishings. The cabin was covered with the finest velvet carpet, with all furniture...
1860s, Photo Search
Isabella Means Harrison (1821-1892) moved with her family to Jacksonport in 1849. She brought her slave Pal (short for Palestine) Louisa. An ancestor of the prominent Boyce family of Tuckerman, Harrison represents much of the pioneer spirit that moved America west...
