1970s
In 1967, the Potlatch Lumber Company donated the Mary Woods No. 2, a working paddle wheeler tugboat, to Jacksonport State Park. The boat then underwent major renovations and was refurbished to look like a steamboat of the 1860’s. Here, it sits close to its berth...
1970s
The “White River Monster” was a legendary creature reportedly sighted many times in the river close to Newport. This 230-pound eight-foot gar and his brethren may have been the source of that legend. The note on the postcard claims that fisherman in the...
1970s
Lady Elizabeth Luker, center, poses as a Southern Belle for the 1973 Arkansas Educational Television special titled Jacksonport Round the Bend. On her left are Luckett McDonald Martin, left, and Cindy Hodges (later Burns), and on the steps below is Ann Price Ashley....
1970s
David Hodges served as prosecuting attorney of Jackson County from 1966 to 1972. Here, he is campaigning in an unidentified farmer’s field. David and his brother Kaneaster were crusading lawyers who shut down much of the gambling in Jackson County. (Courtesy of...
1970s
US Army major Ronald Oliver Scharnberg was a Green Beret whose helicopter crashed in March 1971 in Vietnam, killing all aboard. Major Scharnberg of Newport, a career soldier, did his duty for his country. He was killed while serving his third voluntary tour of duty in...
1970s
The homecoming court in 1970 demonstrates that integration was very much a fact of life in Jackson County public schools by the end of the 1960’s. (Courtesy of Jane Parnell.)
