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Album Name: History Day 2009 Return to Albums
Album Date: Oct 17, 2009
Description: Annual History Day in Rapp's Barren located at Cooper Park.
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Entrance to Rapp's Barren at Cooper Park Shady Grove School House. Built in 1927; students were taught in this structure until the late 1950s. Served as a community building, a polling place for elections, and a church facility. Joan Reeves builds a fire to keep us warm on this cold October day (inside the Shady Grove school). This log cabin was built in the 1830s on property owned by the Talburt Family. Simeon Shot-gun house. This type of house was used as a temporary home until more substantial housing could be constructed, or was used to house laborers on large plantations or farms.
A demonstration of quilting by hand. George Washington Jones Cabin; constructed c. 1868. Pine logs for this cabin were hauled by oxen-drawn wagons from the Ozark National Forest, south of the White River. Interesting exhibits at History Day. Local musicians entertained us all day with beautiful country and folk music. Members of Wiggins Battery prepare to fire the cannon.
Civil War re-enactor from Wiggins Battery. Crowd watches as members of Wiggins Battery prepare for cannon fire. Researcher Vincent Anderson entertained us with newspaper articles across the country from 1880 to 1900 that detailed news from Baxter County. Vincent Anderson is the research librarian at Baxter County Library. He is available to help with historical and genealogical research for Baxter County. Bill Woodiel chats with Becky and Doc Baker at the Shady Grove Schoolhouse.
Bill Woodiel educated us on the history of the Trail of Tears. Inside the Shady Grove Schoolhouse, the group listens intently to our knowledgeable speakers. Map prepared by Bill Woodiel shows the various routes of the Trail of Tears as it passed through our area. Map of Baxter County indicating the route of the Trail of Tears through our county. Key to the map on the prior slice (Trail of Tears through Baxter County).
Bill Woodiel's map of the Historic Routes of the Trail of Tears from beginning to the end in Lynn Baker explains the Arkansas Gravestone project, which will digitally record all gravestone in the State of Arkansas. Archivist Rod Soubers explains the importance of recording gravestone information.    
   

 

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