Most recent addition: November, 2013
Pfc Herbert E. Ferguson, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Ferguson of Hamburg, was included in the Arkansas Department report of those killed in action in the Central Pacific Area in the last week of September, 1944. He was killed August 5, 1944, while giving first aid to wounded men on the ba…
Pfc. Sarina N. Butcher, 19, of Checotah, OK, formerly of Crossett and with family ties to Blevins was a casualty of war on Tuesday, November 1, 2011, in Paktia Province, Afghanistan.
Most Recent Update, December 29, 2011
Updated October, 2011.
The historic section of the cemetery on East Parker (Highway 8) contains burials dating to 1859. "The Hamburg Cemetery, Historic Section, reflects the outstanding examples of funerary art from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Hamburg and Ashley County," the nomination say…
Pfc. Marshall Jackson, listed as “colored,” served with the 368 Infantry Regiment, 93 Infantry Division of the U. S. Army. He died October 27, 1945, after the war was over, and is buried at Plot B, Row 10, Grave 136, Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines.
Robert Cornelius of Crossett was one of five athletes honored at the recent Ouachita Baptist University Sports Hall of Fame induction in February, 2010. Not only was he an outstanding basketball player for OBU, he also broke the color barrier at OBU and for the entire Arkansas Collegiate Con…
The Crossett United Methodist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the country's official list of historically significant properties, in March, 2010. The church, at 500 Main Street, is a 1949 building in which architect John Parks Almand merged the Tudor Revival an…
World War II took men from every part of the United States to places all over the world, even a young man from Line, Arkansas. That young man’s Silver Star and the flag that draped his coffin was dedicated in a ceremony at the Montrose City Hall on Friday, March 5, 2010.
The Crossett Municipal Building at 307-309 Main Street, listed in September, 2007, is an excellent example of the Art Deco style in Crossett. The building is also significant for its associations with the efforts of the town to provide governmental facilities for the community after it cease…
Source: United States War Department. The War of The Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series I, Volume 48. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
The Department of Defense reports that 54,246 American service men and women lost their lives during the Korean War. This includes all losses world wide. Since the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. honors all U.S. military who lost their lives during the war, the American Batt…
Updated October, 2007.
(Updated and Expanded, November 19, 2003) In the four years of civil war from 1861 to 1865, Ashley County escaped the major battles which characterized much of the Confederacy as well as some other parts of Arkansas. The county does have one skirmish, which now, 139 years after the conflict …
Most Recent Update, June 3, 2009
One year past the building's eightieth birthday, the Parkdale United Methodist Church has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the country's official list of important historic properties. The present church building was constructed in 1926, and over the years, it has see…
The United States had a total of 405,399 casualties during World War II. Of those, 176,399 are either buried in American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries around the world or are listed on the various Walls of the Missing.
U. S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donnie Holland, 42, formerly of Bastrop, LA, and the son of Doug and Christine Holland, died in the second day after the aerial attacks began in Iraq in January, 1991, as part of Operation Desert Storm. Holland, a pilot, was flying an F-15 Eagle and was reported miss…
(Updated January, 2005)
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The Crossett Municipal Auditorium at 1100 Main was added to the National Register of Historic Places in September, 2007.
Published In Advance-Monticellonian
Compiled by Sarah Hundley Wilf (and Internet posted with permission)
While Ashley County is not now known as a bastion of medical research, at one time it was the scene of some pioneering medical research—research into the relationship between mosquitos and the control of malaria.
The Watson House, home of a pioneer Hamburg family, is located at 300 North Cherry and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 1975.
The United States suffered 118,518 casualties during World War I. Of that number, 33,717 are buried in American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries in Europe or listed on the Walls of the Missing from World War I.
January, 1895 to February, 1924
Only six people took advantage of an opportunity Saturday morning to learn about the Hamburg Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March of this year.
Noted below are some links to sites which have information related to Ashley County and its history.
The Portland United Methodist Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in November, 2006.
Note: A formal documented version of this article previously published in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 48 (Spring, 1989).
"Sanford, Son of W. A. & M. E. Foote, Born in Hamburg, Ark., September 13, 1870. Murdered in Hamburg, Ark. November 23, 1899" reads the inscription on a tall obelisk in the Hamburg Cemetery. That enigmatic epitaph certainly puts the imagination to work, but probably no one will know for …
The Vietnam War was America's longest war, officially beginning in 1959, though two American airmen were killed in support of the French operations at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, and not ending until the withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam in 1973.
No information was found for this man who is listed on the Ashley County Veterans Memorial.
Constructed in the 1950s, the Greenview Café was approved for the National Register of Historic Places for its significance to African American history in Crossett. From the time the current building was built circa 1950 until it closed circa 1970, the Greenview Café served as a popular gath…
July, 1883 to December, 1894
Pfc. Marshall Jackson, listed as “colored,” served with the 368 Infantry Regiment, 93 Infantry Division of the U. S. Army. He died October 27, 1945, after the war was over, and is buried at Plot B, Row 10, Grave 136, Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines.
1893 Entries
In October, 1997, Dr. Marvin Jeter of the Arkansas Archeological Survey along with Ed and Patsy White and Margie Pounds of Hamburg and other volunteers worked for three weeks to excavate test trenches in an Indian mound on the north banks of Lake Enterprise in Wilmot. At that time, based on …
It's not difficult to understand why the Algonkian-speaking Indians who lived along the Mississippi River named it the "Great River" and the "Father of Waters" (Misi, meaning "big" and Sipi, meaning "water"). The Mighty Mississippi and its great tributaries are literally the lifeline of Nort…
1898 Entries
Pfc Herbert E. Ferguson, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Ferguson of Hamburg, was included in the Arkansas Department report of those killed in action in the Central Pacific Area in the last week of September, 1944. He was killed August 5, 1944, while giving first aid to wounded men on the ba…
Only six people took advantage of an opportunity Saturday morning to learn about the Hamburg Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March of this year.
No information was found for this man who is listed on the Ashley County Veterans Memorial.
The United States suffered 118,518 casualties during World War I. Of that number, 33,717 are buried in American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries in Europe or listed on the Walls of the Missing from World War I.
Most Recent Update, June 3, 2009
No information was found for this man who is listed on the Ashley County Veterans Memorial.
Veterans’ Memorial and Some Who Should Be.
The Crossett Municipal Building at 307-309 Main Street, listed in September, 2007, is an excellent example of the Art Deco style in Crossett. The building is also significant for its associations with the efforts of the town to provide governmental facilities for the community after it cease…
Pfc. Sarina N. Butcher, 19, of Checotah, OK, formerly of Crossett and with family ties to Blevins was a casualty of war on Tuesday, November 1, 2011, in Paktia Province, Afghanistan.
Most Recent Update, December 29, 2011
Updated October, 2011.
The historic section of the cemetery on East Parker (Highway 8) contains burials dating to 1859. "The Hamburg Cemetery, Historic Section, reflects the outstanding examples of funerary art from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Hamburg and Ashley County," the nomination say…
Pfc. Marshall Jackson, listed as “colored,” served with the 368 Infantry Regiment, 93 Infantry Division of the U. S. Army. He died October 27, 1945, after the war was over, and is buried at Plot B, Row 10, Grave 136, Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines.
