Included here are the Southwest region of Arkansas sections of 4 different historical maps:

A. A rare 1855 map that shows the Ouachita County, Arkansas area just 13 years after Ouachita County was created.  Locations shown: Buena Vista * Buffalo * Camden * Coney * Freco * Liberty * Luda * Seminary * Two Bayou * Woodlawn *

B. A map of 1895 Ouachita County showing the locations of 26 different settlements including all of the following: Barham * Bearden * Best * Buena Vista * Camden * Centerville * Chappel * Childester * Eagle Mills * Elliott * Finn * Kemp * Lester * Lilley * Louann * Millville * Nephler * Ogamaw * Onalaska * Purifoy * Sayre * Seminary * Stephens * Tate * Tremont * Wise *  

C. A map of 1898 Ouachita County showing the locations of 38 different settlements including all of the following: Barham * Bayou * Bearden * Buenavista (Buena Vista) * Camden * Centerville * Chapelle * Chidester * Dowling * Eagle Mills * Elliott * Finns * Gossett * Hudson * Kemp * Kirkland * Lester * Liberty * Lilley * Louann * Lufra * Lunet * Miles * Millville * Ogamaw * Onalaska * Pageville * Purifoy * Richie * Rolands * Sayre * Seminary * Stephens * Tate * Tremont * Troy * Vanduzen * Van Dyke *

D. A map of 1915 Ouachita County showing the locations of 22 different settlements including all of the following: Amy * Barham * Bearden * Best * Buena Vista * Camden * Chidester * Eagle Mills * Elliott * Finns * Kemp * Kent * Kirkland * Lester * Louann * Millville * Moline Spur * Ogamaw * Onalaska * Stephens * Tate * Vanduzen *

Section Two of two, all on one CD: The complete 1890 Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Ouachita County, Arkansas by the Goodspeed Publishing Company
This detailed (68 pages in all) book has a large amount of information about Ouachita County, Arkansas from its earliest settlement up to 1890. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Ouachita County, Arkansas including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 91 different family biographies.
 

Here is just some of the information included:

• Partial Contents

• Rivers and Streams

• Timber

• Crops

• Early Expeditions & Exploration in Ouachita County

• Pioneer Settlers in Ouachita County

• Record of Ouachita County Officials

• Ouachita County Organized

• Ouachita County Court House

• Ouachita County Townships

• Population of Ouachita County

• Ouachita County Officials

• Railroads in Ouachita County

• Ouachita County Towns, Villages, Post-Offices: Bearden * Buena Vista * Camden (Ecore a Fabre) * Stephens * Post-Offices

• The Civil War and Ouachita County, Arkansas

• Ouachita County Attorneys and Judges

• First Hanging in Ouachita County

• Ouachita County Schools

• Churches in Ouachita County

• Ouachita County Biographical Sketches (51 pages)

Included is a total of 91 Dallas County family biographies including each of the following surnames: (Some surnames have multiple biographies) (hundreds of other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies):  To see a sample biography, click here Adamson * Agee * Avera * Bacchus * Barham * Black * Blake * Bradshaw * Bragg * Branton * Brooks * Brown * Bunn * Burton * Campbell * Carter * Coleman * Cox * Criner * Cross * Culp * Dawson * Freidheim * Frix * Garner * Gatling * Good * Grayson * Green * Greening * Hale * Hardison * Henry * Jackson * Johnson * Jones * Juniel * Keith * Lester * Lide * Mahan * Martin * McMahan * Moon * Morgan * Myatt * Newton * Oglesby * Pace * Parker * Parr * Patton * Pearce * Perdue * Pharr * Pickett * Pierce * Proctor * Proffitt * Purifoy * Ramsey * Reeves * Riddick * Ritchie * Rogers * Rowe * Sevier * Sifford * Sithen * Smith * Stark * Stinnett * Stinson * Thomson * Thornton * Toney * Tribble * Tufts * Wadley * Wilson * Yarbrough * 

Ouachita County is located in Southwest Arkansas and is surrounded by the following counties: Clark County, Arkansas * Dallas County, Arkansas * Calhoun County, Arkansas * Union County, Arkansas * Columbia County, Arkansas * and Nevada County, Arkansas  (highlighted county names can be clicked on for further description)