1940s
The congregants of Mount Gillard Baptist Church in Auvergne pose outside their church in the early 1940’s. The church was the central element of social life in most parts of Arkansas at this time, in white communities as well as black. (Courtesy of James Logan...
1890s, Photo Search
The Doswell Institute was a private school in Auvergne established in 1896 by Franklin Doswell, who was prominent in leading education efforts in Jackson County. Although the students paid tuition, the school was not successful and closed in 1906, perhaps because by...
1890s, Photo Search
the Batesville and Brinkley depot at Auvergne was built in 1884 but blew away in the tornado of 1892. The tracks of the B&B which were laid from Brinkley north, reached Newport around 1890. Because of opposition from the Iron Mountain Railway, the B&B never...
