Preceded by Sherman, Scott Street, and Peabody schools, Little Rock High School opened at Fourteenth and Cumberland Streets, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1905. In 1927, the school moved to the current building at Fourteenth and Park streets. It was renamed Little Rock Central High School in 1955.The sc

William E. Woodruff, age 35Newspapers are often the best source to learn Arkansas history. Among the state’s oldest newspapers was the Arkansas Gazette, which was founded by William Woodruff during the state’s territorial days.William Edward Woodruff was born Dec. 24, 1795, in Suffolk County, New Yo

James Corbett Morris, known as Jimmy Driftwood, plays his homemade guitar.Arkansas folk singers and songwriters have a long tradition of using American history to connect with audiences. Among Arkansas’s most famous folk singer-songwriters is Jimmy Driftwood, who traveled the U.S. with his homemade

W.S. Davis, born in Tennessee in 1856, began practicing medicine in 1876. He moved to Indian Territory in 1878, and to Logan County, Arkansas, in 1879. He eventually settled at Owensville, on the middle fork of the Saline River in western Saline County, Arkansas. Davis married Mary Camer of Independ