Randolph County Court House

Pocahontas has had three Randolph County courthouses. Thomas S. Drew and Cinderella Bettis gave the land in 1837, and the first building, put up by 1839, collapsed because it was poorly built. John A. McKay of Helena built the second, finished in early 1875, and it served for more than sixty years. In World War II it became an entertainment center for servicemen from the Walnut Ridge flying school. The third, an Art Deco courthouse across the street designed by Eugene John Stern, was dedicated on December 28, 1940, and cost about $130,000, with a WPA grant paying $49,250.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Davidsonville Historic State Park — 8.6 mi
  The ghost-town site of Arkansas's first post office, courthouse and federal land office, on the Black River, with open-frame outlines of the courthouse and a dogtrot house.
• Powhatan Historic State Park — 15 mi
  A river port and county seat on the Black River whose 1888 courthouse, 1873 jail, log house and academy still stand where they were built, with a state archives branch in the same park.
• Crowley's Ridge State Park — 23 mi
  A 1933 state park on the loess hills of Crowley's Ridge, built around Benjamin Crowley's homestead spring and the stone-and-log pavilion, dam and cabins of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

More markers nearby

• Sir Henry Morton Stanley — steps away
• Wear Kibler Schoonover 1910-1982 — steps away
• The Pocahontas Civil War River Walk Memorial — steps away
• Pitman's Ferry — 0.2 mi