1920s
A devastating fire in March 1926 destroyed more than 280 businesses and homes in a 30-block area. Most of the town’s fine homes burned to the ground, and the fire smoldered for a week. It started during a high wind when wooden shingles caught fire in a...
1920s
The steamer F.W. Tucker sits at a lumberyard in Jackson County, probably Bob Logan’s, being loaded in the 1920’s. African American laborers are standing by waiting to load the cut lumber onto barges that the steamboat will push down the White River to...
1900s, Photo Search
Tuckerman lies 10 miles north of Newport, and it derived much of its early wealth from the timber industry as well as the production of cotton. Here, a lumberyard stands close to the railroad tracks since Tuckerman is not situated on the river. This photograph was...
