1900’s – City of Newport Aerial View

1900’s – City of Newport Aerial View

The newly constructed Jackson County Courthouse (with bell tower and cupola) stands at the corner of Third and Main Streets.  The First Christian Church is the white building to the upper left of the photograph.  The large building to the upper right is the Newport...
1900’s – Jackson Guard Reunion Circa 1900

1900’s – Jackson Guard Reunion Circa 1900

These old soldiers are veterans of the Jackson Guards, a Confederate company raised in Jacksonport in May 1861 that served in the Virginia theater as Company G of the 1st Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA.  The date they left was the day before the state of Arkansas...