Great News for Northeast Arkansas

While going over all the great articles in Google Reader this morning, I found the following.  Thanks to Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter for this bit of info that I'm sharing.  If you haven't subscribed to his blog, you should...it's terrific!

This is great news for anyone who has relatives and ancestors in Northeast Arkansas!  I've been to the Powhatan Historic State Park and it's a beautiful area.

March 10, 2011

Grand Opening Held at new Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives

The grand opening of the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives was held Thursday in Powhatan. Located on the grounds of the Powhatan Historic State Park, the facility came to be through a collaboration between Arkansas State Parks and the Arkansas History Commission, with assistance from the Lawrence County Historical Society.

For members of the Lawrence County Historical Society, it represented a long-awaited homecoming for records that have been in the society's care for many years.

You can read more in an article by Gretchen Hunt  in the Lawrence County, Arkansas, Times Dispatch at http://www.thetd.com/freepages/2011-03-09/news/story1.php

Posted by Dick Eastman on March 10, 2011 in Current Affairs | 

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