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Photo Album

Album Name: Vintage Photos, Vol. 2 Return to Albums
Album Date: Oct 2, 2010
Description: More vintage photos of Baxter County and the Twin Lakes area.
(click an image to enlarge and start a slide show)
1926 MHHS Basketball team. Can you name any of the players? 1926 MHHS Basketball team. Can you name any of these players? 1948 Kindergarten class. Most of these students were identified in Vol. 32, No. 3 of our quarterly (in 2006). 1909: Hosea Alley and Arthur Parks. Mr. Alley died in service to his country during WWI. The Alley-White Post of the American Legion is named in his honor. Arthur Parks was a businessman in Mtn. Home and owned a garage on the east side of Main Street. 1943: Amanda Gist and her First Grade Rhythm Band of Cotter Elementary School. This photo was featured on the cover of Vol. 31, No. 3 of our quarterly (in 2005).
Arkansas Power & Light Company. Baker Residence (where the Ozark Shopping Center is now). Est. 1906, Peoples Bank on the south side of the square. White River Baptist Association baptism at Pigeon Creek. This area's largest baptizing was held April 23, 1950. Bowman's Gift Shop at Henderson.
The Cotter High School Band in front of the Cotter gym. Cotter High School Class of 1961 (from the Ray Grass collection). This photo was featured in Vol. 31, No. 4 of our quarterly (in 2005). Cotter Springs. The date of this postcard is uncertain, but the style of the card indicates that it is probably from the 1930s. Baxter County Courthouse with the bandstand tower. Uncle Mart Holland and pilot in 1920, with the first plane to lane in Baxter County. Uncle Mart was the oldest living resident of Baxter County. He lived to be 110 years, 10 months, and 10 days old.
Johnson Store at Gassville, c. 1925. Trolly Pasquolly in Lakeview, at the east end of Bull Shoals Dam. 1st bale of cotton in Mountain Home, c. 1916. Baker Street in Mountain Home (east side of the square) looking north. Baker Street in Mountain Home (east side of the square) looking north.
Cedar Grill in Mountain Home, c. 1954. C. 1952, another view of the east side of the square. Halbert's Mill, located on East Sixth Street, 1/2 block off the square; c. 1920. Howlett's General Repair shop in Mountain Home. Knight's Tourist Court in Mountain Home.
The Mail Hack made a daily run between West Plains, MO, and Yellville, AR (shown here on the south side of the Mountain Home Square). The last trip was made in 1907. This photo was featured on the cover of our Vol. 31, No. 2 issue of our quarterly (in 2005). Main Street in Mountain Home, c. 1958. Looking north on Main Street in Mountain Home, c. 1950. Looking south on Main Street in Mountain Home (west side of the square). Mountain Home High School on College Street.
Twin Lakes Opry, Hwy. 62 East, in Mountain Home. Panther Heights on Lake Norfork (on the way to Gamaliel). Silver Saddle Motel on College Street in Mountain Home. Mountain Home's first swimming pool was an outlet of the Hogan Spring which flowed across Pigeon Creek Road (now Hwy. 201 North). Mountain Home's first pool located on Hwy. 201 North (across from Brent's Bar-B-Que).
Looking north on Main Street in Mountain Home, c. 1929. Roses Motel in Norfork. Shelter House at Norfork Dam. The Norfork Bridge over the North Fork River. Arkansas State Employment Office for the building of the Norfork Dam, c. 1941.
Gassville's entry for the parade honoring the dedication of the Rainbow Arch Bridge at Cotter, 1930. This photo was featured on the cover of Vol. 30, No. 4, of our quarterly. The Mountain Home Band marches in a parade in 1914. Pauline Edmonds and her deputies are sworn into office by Judge Fred Engeler in May 1968, following the death of Sheriff Emmett Edmonds during a jail break. In 1943, this plane crashed onto Earl Bryant's lawn, north of Mountain Home. The pilot was not injured. Riverside Hotel at Norfork, built by Carl and Vada Sheid.
Shamrock Cafe and Gift Shop, located at the intersection of Hwy. 62 East and Hwy. 5 North. Short White on the Buffalo Ferry, with his mules George and Tanner. A story about Mr. White was featured in Vol. 32, No. 4 of our quarterly (in 2006). 1919: Nell Horton Collie and E.J. Loop on the tank, The Miser family, in from of the Wake Post Office, established in 1890. Norfork,
   

 

 

 

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