Lincoln is a city in Washington County,Arkansas,United States. The population was 2,294 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Northwest Arkansas metro area.
Yukon is a city in eastern Canadian County,Oklahoma,United States. The population was 23,630 at the 2020 census. Founded in the 1890s,the town was named in reference to a gold rush in Yukon Territory,Canada,at the time. Historically,Yukon served as an urban center for area farmers and the site of a milling operation. Currently,it is primarily a residential community for people who work in the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area.
Arkansas Highway 59 is a north–south state highway in Northwest Arkansas. The route runs 93.24 miles (150.06 km) from Arkansas Highway 22 in Barling north to the Missouri state line through Van Buren,the county seat of Crawford County. Highway 59 parallels US 59 between Siloam Springs and Fort Smith. Since US 59 goes through Arkansas,AR 59 is the only Arkansas state highway to share its numbering with a federal highway that goes through Arkansas.
Addison Gardner Foster was an American businessman and politician who was prominent in Minnesota and Washington. A Republican,he was most notable for his service as a United States senator from Washington for one term,1899 to 1905.
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy,disenfranchisement,and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states. Historian Canter Brown Jr. noted that in some states,such as Florida,the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The following is a partial list of notable African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900. Dates listed are the year that a term states or the range of years served if multiple terms.
Cassius McDonald Barnes was a soldier in the Union Army in the American Civil War and a lawyer and Republican politician who served as the fourth governor of Oklahoma Territory.
James Sanford Davenport was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma and a member of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. He served on the Congressional committee that created the first roads and highways committee in the U.S. House.
Confederate monuments and memorials in the United States include public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA),Confederate leaders,or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. Many monuments and memorials have been or will be removed under great controversy. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War,these symbols include monuments and statues,flags,holidays and other observances,and the names of schools,roads,parks,bridges,buildings,counties,cities,lakes,dams,military bases,and other public structures. In a December 2018 special report,Smithsonian Magazine stated,"over the past ten years,taxpayers have directed at least $40 million to Confederate monuments—statues,homes,parks,museums,libraries,and cemeteries—and to Confederate heritage organizations."
In 1887,Robert A. Long and Victor Bell formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus,Kansas. The Long-Bell Lumber Company branched out using balanced vertical integration to control all aspects of lumber from the sawmills to the retail lumber yard. As the company expanded it moved further south and eventually had holdings in Arkansas,Oklahoma Indian Territory,and Louisiana,before heading west to Washington.
William S. Hull (1848-1924) was an architect based in Jackson,Mississippi who designed over twenty county courthouses in the American South.
Richard H. Keith,also known as R. H. Smith,was a coal and lumber businessman. He arrived in Kansas City,Missouri in 1871 with forty dollars and started a small coal yard. From that beginning evolved an empire spanning several states,that included coal,timber,sawmills,railroads,and even the building of towns.
Van Winkle's Mill Site is a historic 19th-century industrial site at 21392 Arkansas Highway 12 near Rogers,Arkansas. The area,located in the hollow of Little Clifty Creek northeast of the junction of AR 12 with AR 127,includes the foundational remnants of a series of mills operated between 1850 and 1890 by Peter Van Winkle,a major figure in the lumber industry of northwestern Arkansas in the late 19th century. The site included,in addition to mill buildings,Van Winkle's residence,a blacksmithy,and quarters used by the workers,which included slaves during the period before the American Civil War. Oral histories pertaining to the site include claims of a cemetery,but excavations conducted between 1997 and 2005 failed to produce evidence of its location. Van Winkle's first mill and house were burned during the Civil War,and the site was later scavenged for materials after it was abandoned.
Henry Hamilton Love was a lumberman,sportswriter and humorist who lived in Nashville,Tennessee. He was known as the "Daddy of the Nashville lumberman" and was the first president of the Nashville Lumberman's Club. Love wrote the Hardwood Code,a telegraphic code once used extensively in the lumber trade and that was urged by the Hardwood Manufacturer's Association of the United States.
This is a list of newspapers and magazines in the United States owned by,or editorially supportive of,the Socialist Party of America.
William Russell Pickering (1849–1927),referred to as W. R. Pickering,was an American miner,lumber baron,developer,railroad owner and banker. From his first business adventure in mining lead,in Joplin,Missouri in 1872,and his partnership with Ellis Short in the merchandise business at Joplin,the empire grew across several states,including Missouri,Arkansas,Indian Territory,Louisiana,Texas,and California.
The Arkansas Southern Railroad Company was a small carrier with track in Arkansas and Louisiana. It was incorporated in 1892 and merged out of existence in 1905.
John Barber White was an American lumber businessman. He was one of the founders of the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company,and served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
