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Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

Deadly Tornados - 1916 - Arkansas Ties

Articles listing the death toll of a devastating tornado that destroyed several towns in Arkansas.

Department of Arkansas Heritage

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Arkansas

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.

Texarkana, AR Tornado July 1882

The Turnbo Manuscripts

By Silas Claiborne Turnbo, 1844-1925. A collection of approximately eight hundred short tales, stories and vignettes that reflect life along the White River Valley in northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri during the latter half of the 19th century.