Crawford County, Arkansas: Biographies, History, and Historical Maps

226 pages including 222 family biographies plus 4 different historical maps featuring the locations of 36 Crawford County communities

An informative and historical overview of Crawford County, Arkansas  including two separate books on CD which include 4 historical maps (1855, 1895, 1898, and 1915); plus the full 1889 Goodspeed's "History of Crawford County, Arkansas" book including 222 family biographies.

This fascinating and detailed CD contains ALL of the following material in two separate books, ALL on one CD:

Book One on CD: Maps of Crawford County, Arkansas
Included here are the North Western region of Arkansas sections of 4 different historical maps:
A. A rare 1855 map that shows the area of Crawford County, Arkansas just 35 years after the county was formed. Communities shown are: Belmont * Narrows * Natural Dam * Van Buren

B. A map of 1895 Crawford County showing the locations of 21 different settlements including all of the following: Alma * Armada * Cedarville * Chester * Dean Spring * Dora * Dyer * Lancaster * Locke * Meadows * Mountainburg * Mulberry * Natural Dam * Odell * Porter Sta. (or Frisco P.O.) * Rudy * Sand Point * Uniontown * Van Buren * Vida * Walkers *

C. A map of 1898 Crawford County showing the locations of 29 different settlements including all of the following: Alma * Anna * Armada * Belmont * Bidville * Britton * Catcher * Cedarville * Chester * Dean Spring * Dora * Dyer * Frisco P.O. (or Porter) * Graphic * Haroldton * Lancaster * Lanehill * Lee Creek * Locke * Mountainburg * Natural Dam * Rudy * Sand Point * Shibley * Stattler * Stop * Uniontown * Van Buren * Walkers *

D. A map of 1915 Crawford County showing the locations of 21 different settlements including all of the following: Alma * Armada * Bidville * Cedarville * Chester * Davidson * Dyer * Lancaster * Leecreek * Locke * Meadows * Mountainburg * Mulberry * Natural Dam * Odell * Rudy * Shibley * Uniontown * Van Buren * Walkers * Winfrey *



Book Two on CD: The complete 1889 "History of Crawford County, Arkansas" by the Goodspeed Publishing Co.
This detailed (226 pages in all!) book has an incredible amount of information about Crawford County, Arkansas from its earliest settlement up to 1889. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Crawford County, Arkansas including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 222 different family biographies.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Boundary, Geology, Features
• Mineral Springs
• Era of Settlement
• Earliest Inhabitants
• First White Settler
• Land Entries
• Later Settlers
• Organization
• County Formation
• Societies, Etc.
• Railroads
• Election Returns
• County Officers
• The Courts
• Crawford County Cities, Towns and Villages: Van Buren * Alma * Chester * Mountainburg * Cedarville * Cove City * Uniontown * Porter * Rudy
• Smaller Villages: Dyer * Dora * Graphic * Others
• Military Annals
• The Mexican War
• The Civil War: Forebodings * Comments of the Press * Little Rock Convention * Volunteers * First Troops * Other Companies * The Action at Oak Hill * New Calls For Troops * Battle of Prairie Grove * Sacking the County * Summary of Troops
• Education
• Churches and Kindred Societies
• Post-Offices and Finances
• Biographical Appendix

Included is a total of 222 family biographies including each of the following surnames:
(Some surnames have multiple biographies) (thousands of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): Alexander * Allen * Barker * Beal * Bolling * Bourland * Bowlin * Boyd * Bradford * Branson * Briscoe * Brown * Burrows * Bushmiaer * Byers * Byars * Cain * Campbell * Carney * Carson * Clonch * Coatney * Cole * Coleman * Colgrove * Collins * Comstock * Conley * Cornelius * Coryell * Cradduck * Craven * Creekmore * Daniel * Dean * Decherd * Dibrell * Dick * Dickson * Dillon * Dougan * Drewrey * Dunham * Dyer * Early * Edmondson * Elkins * Farris * Flanagin * Flinn * Floyd * Formby * Foster * Gideon * Gooding * Greig * Hale * Hall * Hammack * Harden * Harrison * Harvey * Hawkins * Hayman * Henry * Hinson * Henson * Hodges * Holcroft * Hollis * Howell * Huckleberry * Hutchins * Hynes * James * Kerens * Kerr * Kibler * Kimbler * King * Kenner * Kuykendall * Larue * Laurent * Leach * Lee * Lewers * Littlejohn * Lloyd * Locke * London * Lowrey * Lynch * McGee * McKibben * McKinney * McNeely * Maddox * Mattax * Massey * Matlock * Meadors * Miller * Mitchell * Montgomery * Moore * Morgan * Morton * Moss * Mueller * Murta * Neal * Nordin * Obar * O'Bryan * Ogden * Oliver * Paine * Palmer * Pape * Perkins * Pesterfield * Pernot * Polly * Rains * Rea * Reed * Reinhardt * Renfroe * Robinson * Savage * Schaberg * Scott * Sharp * Shibley * Simco * Simpson * Sims * Smith * Southmayd * Spencer * Speir * Stafford * Stevens * Stevenson * Steward * Stewart * Strong * Swearingen * Tarpley * Taylor * Temple * Testerman * Thayer * Thompson * Trewhitt * Truitt * Turman * Turner * Varbel * Vestal * Vinsant * Walker * Wallace * Warden * Wardlaw * Weaver * Webb * Wells * West * White * Wilcox * Williams * Wilson * Winfrey * Wood * Wright * Wynn * Wynne * Yancy * Yoes *



Crawford County is located in the North West corner of Arkansas and is surrounded by the following counties: Washington County, Arkansas * Franklin County, Arkansas * Sebastian County, Arkansas * Sequoyah County, Oklahoma and Adair County, Oklahoma.

Each of the two books on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and requires the free Acrobat Reader program to view. You probably already have this program on your computer but if not, a free copy of the program is included on the CD. Each of the books on this CD is designed to look just like a regular book and is bookmarked to move easily and quickly from one section another. This CD will operate on any Pentium I or higher computer with a CD drive.

The cost for this CD containing both books described above is only $9.95 plus shipping! A large amount of information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Crawford County, Arkansas from its first settlement to 1889.