Author: Patrick Carroll
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The St. Charles Brothel Story
It’s well-known among Pocahontas old-timers that one room of the old St. Charles hotel was the town’s brothel back in the “roaring twenties”. It’s the…
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In And Near Pocahontas, Lesmeister Guesthouse
Downtown Pocahontas has a wool mill!
Small Farm Fibers is a small-scale woolen mill in downtown Pocahontas, just around the corner from the Lesmeister Guesthouse. Go in and watch as they transform raw…
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The Eddie Mae Herron Center
The Eddie Mae Herron Center is many things: a museum, an education center, a community center, a heritage and culture center. The Center preserves and…
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In And Near Pocahontas, The St. Charles
The St. Charles Massacre
First a little history. The largest building in Pocahontas during the American Civil War was the two-story St. Charles Hotel, which occupied two-thirds of the east side of…
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Camera Corner Studio
Strolling the Pocahontas town square can take you by so many interesting places, including Cindy Throgmorton’s Camera Corner Studio, on the corner just a few…
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Southern Traveler Magazine
A writer for AAA‘s magazine Southern Traveler was in Pocahontas last week, interviewing everybody downtown for an upcoming article. She visited the Randolph County Heritage Museum twice…
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Historic Preservation
I read a wonderful article today in the latest edition of Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The article is about…
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Arkansas’ Oldest Drug Store
There has been a drug store at the corner of Bettis Street and Broadway on the town square in Pocahontas since 1852, making it the oldest pharmacy…
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