white county: You need to join the White County Historical Society. White County Mounted Patrol. - 01/26/12 02:52 PM
Why join the White County Historical Society? Many reasons but the main one could be to get their newsletter that is sent monthly....with pictures! They have given me permission to use their pictures on this blog so I am going to share this one with you. It was in the current issue and I have never seen it before. Look at all these handsome guys of the White County Mounted Patrol.
Now that you see overall, I'm going to show you up close ones.
Now for the names if you are curious.
Top row, left to right. … (15 comments)
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white county: 1948 picture of a school in White County Arkansas. Kensett Arkansas School. - 06/22/11 08:49 PM
FOUND!
NEAT OLD PICTURE OF A SCHOOL DATED 1948.
It is a neat old building that has the location and the date on the back. It was in one of those little wood frames that someone a few years back had used to frame old copies of pictures and had them for sale at some store. Mother-in-law found one with a picture of her husband's father and brothers lined up on a board. I have blogged it.
She was able to buy one for each family member. I found one of the ruins of Judsonia from the tornado in 1952 … (18 comments)
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white county: Huge rocking chair in White County Arkansas. Paul Bunyan size person needed. - 03/10/11 08:16 AM
Romance is just a little town with no stores and not many people but it has a post office. The post office mostly does business because of the name where the mail is processed. They do a big business at Valentine's Day or when someone is sending out wedding invitations.
I went through Romance to find an REO property. Romance didn't do much for me but this thing that I found on the side of Highway 5 did make my heart flutter.
That, my friends, is a chair! That is a huge chair! That is a chair that Paul Bunyan … (13 comments)
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white county: Some buildings just don't show their age. Quattlebaum Music building is 151 years old! - 03/08/11 10:08 PM
Blog buddy Luke Jones wrote a great article about homes on the Historical Register in White County. His headline picture in the Daily Citizen on March 5 2011 was the Quattlebaum Music building on the South West corner of the court square. He said it was built in 1860! That's old folks! That's getting on up there in years.
Here's a picture of it now. The man who runs the music store is someone I love and I saw him actually painting this building a few years ago. Greg Geroy is his name and he babies this building.
An older picture of … (22 comments)
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white county: East Race Street in Searcy Arkansas revisited.....almost..... - 10/04/10 08:14 AM
Reports from people who grew up in Searcy Arkansas prior to the 60's indicate that East Race was a street with big trees, impressive houses and wrap porches in many cases. The mystery for my Searcy readers today is whether they have ever seen this house.
Okay, I'll just go ahead and tell you. This house sat where the Sexton's Grocery Store is today. Reportedly, Safeway (the original grocery store who located there) offered to buy the house and the family who owned it chose to sell.
One family hated to see the beautiful house be razed so they bought … (18 comments)
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white county: Now what the devil does that mean? That's Southern for "I'm puzzled." - 07/12/10 10:25 AM
I'd picked up my sign.
I'd removed the lockboxes. REO's require two lockboxes, one for the service people and one for our MLS members. Some REO's are even requiring the crawlspaces and the worn-out outbuildings to be locked with padlocks. I'd removed them all.
Getting back to my car I noticed something that I'd not seen before. Look at this.
There was this concrete slab in the front yard with this writing on it. When I went to the Bible to see what it read the verse said this:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on … (18 comments)
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white county: Punky Caldwell reblogged. C L Coyle and other band members from Searcy Arkansas. - 07/04/10 10:58 PM
We did a blog a short time ago that was a fun blog about long haired music. A young man who turned out to be Punky Caldwell, quite well know in his day, got noticed and commented on a lot. His daughter found the blog and sent us additional pictures.
It seems Punky died young but was quite a musician in his day. Here is a picture of Punky and his band.
Band members were C L Coyle, Coot Brown and Bishop Horten. They were together in the late 50's and played at "The Silver Moon" outside of Searcy. The … (9 comments)
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white county: Please! Don't shoot! It's just me, the harmless real estate lady!! - 06/19/10 09:34 PM
I've said before that you never know what you'll find when you get assigned an REO to go check out, change the locks and prepare for selling.
This week I found this guy. He was staring at me through the woods and I practically let out the words used in the title of this blog.
He looks as if he's going to shoot me! But he also looks as bug-eyed scared as I did.
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white county: A new look for Searcy AR. Mexican restaurant really goes authentic. 301 E Race. - 06/14/10 09:05 PM
Don't you love drive bys when you have to do a double take because of something new?
I do.
And I did.
Driving down East Race Street in Searcy Arkansas I had to look twice because construction of a new kind was going on at the 301 E Race location. It looked Hispanic or Adobe or something entirely new to our area.
This has been the location of a successful Mexican food restaurant for several years. It looked this way. I'm sorry that I had to walk with the Google man to get a picture and this time the picture … (17 comments)
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white county: The Holmes Ranch on Holmes Road in Searcy Arkansas? Not a mansion. - 05/25/10 08:30 AM
I posted a blog a day or two ago about the mule-making on Holmes Road many years ago. Bob Collins said he could hear braying all the way into town where he was a city slicker.
I came across a picture which seems to go along with the last blog. It is a picture marked on the back by my mother-in-law saying, "Our old home place across road. Holmes Ranch." The Holmes family had built a rock house on the hill and this was an old house still standing.
A card was with the picture reading, "Robert Taylor Judge property, owned by … (10 comments)
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white county: Kinda like watching paint dry but something is going to happen. - 05/17/10 05:47 PM
In the neighborhood there appears to be a battle between this tree and an underground utility box. It's been going on for years and it's like a slow but sure competition.
That tree grows bigger and bigger.
That box gets more and more tilted.
Oh, the excitement! What's going to happen?
I asked Hubby and he said, "Well, one of these days we'll probably have everything just go off."
And way up in that tree is a street light being swallowed. Now don't you just love the excitement!!
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white county: That snake is almost as big as I am! Pleasures were simpler years ago. - 05/06/10 10:20 PM
WOW! That's my grandpa and he's not even afraid of that snake!
And that's my daddy protecting me if that snake comes alive.
Perhaps that is not what the young boy is thinking but I do feel that he was as thrilled as could be to be out snake hunting with two men who loved him.
In case you are wondering, it is my husband and his dad, V. W. Duncan and Mr. Holmes, my husband's grandpa on his mother's side.
The Holmes lived on the side of a hill in Searcy Arkansas and it had lots of rocks and … (11 comments)
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white county: Oh, No! What's going on here? Margaret Pope Estate house undergoing changes? - 04/24/10 08:12 AM
Searcy's historic houses get gone, seems like, overnight. I drove by this one two times on my way to work yesterday. The first time there was a dump truck in the yard. The second time the screened porch on the East side was gone.
The house appears empty and the yard has been growing up. It is called the Margaret Pope house, I believe, unless my historians correct me. It's on a corner of Market Street just a few blocks from downtown Searcy Arkansas. Several attempts have been made throughout the years to remodel it and save it.
What is going on now? … (16 comments)
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white county: Sold in 1995. 2010. Family circumstances change. For sale again. I love repeat business. - 04/01/10 09:00 PM
It is such a pleasure to think back over the years and know that you sold a house to a family who has lived there, taken care of it and loved it all through the years.
Here's an example. They kept the picture of the house when they bought it. It had 7 acres in a very private area on the popular West side of our Searcy town.
They had to cut the two tallest trees and a storm made them get a new garage door and roof but it is basically the same now. It still has three bedrooms, two baths, … (10 comments)
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white county: Why'd they pose that cute kid on top of that torture machine???? Farmall Tractor - 03/29/10 09:46 AM
Would you look at the tires on this contraption. Can you imagine being run over by that thing? It looks like something from a futuristic movie.... and with a line of these going across the country, it would wipe out everything.
The cute kid is an activerain reader and supplied this photo saying it was taken in 1941 at Harmony Arkansas. Perhaps we can persuade him to tell us more about the machine and reassure us that he survived this gruesome experience. Wonder if any of these machines still operate. Wonder if they'd work on a super highway?
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white county: Getting ready for fox hunt at Armstrong Springs, just a memory now, near Searcy Arkansas. - 03/18/10 03:41 PM
This postcard was run in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette by Steven Hanley, who has collected post cards for years and years and has a huge collection. He runs one a day in the newspaper.
This one has an explanation that at Armstrong Springs (not far from Searcy and only a memory now) in 1909 six mounted men and their dogs were about to go fox hunting. Armstrong Springs was a small health resort that attracted visitors from far and wide because of its "miracle water" which was bottled and shipped across the nation. The building shown here was a hotel. … (10 comments)
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white county: The old Deener House, Searcy Arkansas, now a day care center. - 03/04/10 08:13 PM
The Deener House always led to confusion on my part because I had heard the term used a lot and I didn't know exactly what they referred to. Some said the Old Deener House. Well.....does that mean the Deener was old or the house was old? Anita, my blogging friend, says that this is the Deener house and she knew and was friends with the girl who lived there.
It's now a daycare center. Don't you know kids like to drive up to their school and see the A, B, C's on the side of the house? According to the courthouse … (16 comments)
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white county: Burr Department Store, Searcy Arkansas. Ever hear of this one? - 02/25/10 10:39 AM
This picture was posted on Facebook on Main Street Searcy's page. I showed it to my husband who grew up in Searcy and he didn't remember it. I'm putting it out there for folks who read this blog to see if they remember it and tell us where it was.
It is certainly a very clear and lovely picture from Searcy's past. Notice the brick paved streets. It might be good for us to know when the city of Seary covered the bricks with asphalt.
Would you call this front an Art-Deco type design?
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white county: He came, he saw, he conquered my Tivo. Within minutes. Activerain friends are the greatest! - 02/10/10 09:56 PM
Activerain friends contribute. They add comments to our blogs, provide pictures, and generally keep us on our toes looking for new blog ideas. One of my activerain friends came to my house today and made me wireless!!
Of course, those same activerain friends can stir up stuff. I didn't know I needed to be wireless. I was pretty happy with wires running everywhere. Then the friends found out that I hate TV commercials so therefore I don't watch TV.
"Barbara, you need to get Tivo," several of them said.
"What is Tivo and why do I need it?"
"You fast forward through … (28 comments)
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white county: Judsonia to Kensett bridge that is now closed to through traffic until it can be repaired. - 02/09/10 10:07 AM
This old picture of a bridge just says that it is near Searcy Arkansas. I'm thinking that it is the bridge that connected Judsonia with Kensett without folks having to drive miles around. If so, it is the bridge that is now closed with the county trying to find the money to make repairs. Being in Judsonia the other day, I took this next picture.
I can't tell for sure if they're the same. But here's the greatest photo of the bridge that connects. It is a professional photo taken by Fred Garcia and is on First Security Bank's calendar … (15 comments)
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