Columbia County -- History Articles
- 1. "Early
Days in Columbia County," by Glen G. Martel in Arkansas Historical
Quarterly
- 2 (September 1943): 214-43.
- A social and economic history of the county before the
Civil War.
- The article is based up the author's M.A. thesis completed
in 1933 and
- reflects the historical interpretations of that era with
regard to slavery.
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- 2. "Origins
of Columbia's Place Names Reviewed," by Glen Martel in Arkansas
Historical
- Quarterly 11 (Spring 1952):
1-14.
- Provides as interesting account of the origins of the
names of many towns, villages, and other locations in Columbia county.
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- 3. "'Frog
Level,' Oldest House in Columbia County," by Mary Davis Woodward
in Arkansas
- Historical Quarterly 8 (Spring
1949): 327-30.
- Describes the Frazier plantation home built in 1852.
As of 1999, this home still stands in
- Columbia county.
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- 4. "Letters
From Columbia County Confederate Soldiers," by Ted R. Worley in
Arkansas Historical Quarterly 4 (Spring 1945): 172-75.
- Two letters written in 1861 from soldiers of Company
G, 6th Arkansas Infantry, first known as James P. Austin's Columbia Guards.
Both tell of camp life and deaths from typhoid fever rather than of war
and deaths from battle.
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- 5. "Clayton
and Catterson Rob Columbia County," by J.H. Atkinson in Arkansas
Historical Quarterly 21 (Summer 1962): 153-57.
- A letter written to President Andrew Johnson in 1868
protesting the actions of Governor Powell Clayton in declaring martial
law and sending armed forces into Columbia county, where several freedmen
had been killed, in the struggles over Reconstruction policies following
the Civil War.
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- 6. "The Textile
Industry in Columbia County, Arkansas," by Glen Martel in Arkansas
Historical Quarterly 4 (Spring 1945): 78-86.
- Tells the story of the building of a textile plant in
Magnolia in 1927, one of only a few at the time in Arkansas, and its operation
through the Second World War.
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- 7. "Oil and
Gas in Southwest Arkansas," by Glen Martel in Arkansas Historical
Quarterly
- 4 (Spring 1945): 172-214.
- Provides some history of oil and gas development but
focuses more upon its science and technology and anticipates the oil boom
in Columbia county after the Second World War.
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- 8. "Arkansas's
Reaction to the Men Who Said "No" to World War II,"
by Cynthia Hastas Morris in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 43 (Summer
1984): 153-77.
- An account of conscientious objectors from Arkansas and
of Camp Magnolia, the only work camp in the state for conscientious objectors
giving alternative national service in lieu of military service. The fifty
young men at Camp Magnolia, located just north of Southern Arkansas University,
worked forty hours per week on soil conservation projects and faced local
hostility.
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