Section One of two, ALL on one CD: Maps of Howard County, Arkansas
Included here are the Southwest region of Arkansas sections of 4 different historical maps:

A. A rare 1855 map that shows the area eighteen years before Howard County, Arkansas was created.  Howard County was created in 1873 primarily from Hempstead and Sevier Counties with small portions from Polk and Pike Counties.

B. A map of 1895 Howard County showing the locations of 17 different settlements including all of the following: Antimony * Centerpoint * Corinth * Duckett * Euclid * Galena * Markham * Martha * Mineola * Muddy Fork * Nashville * New Moon * Pates * Rosadale * Saratoga * Tolette * Umpire *

C. A map of 1898 Howard County showing the locations of 22 different settlements including all of the following: Allbrook * Antimony * Buckrange * Centerpoint * Corinth * Duckett * Eldridge * Euclid * Forgy * Galena * Martha * Mineral Springs * Minnie * Muddyfork * Nashville * New Moon * Pates * Picayune * Rosadale * Saratoga * Tollette * Umpire *

D. A map of 1915 Howard County showing the locations of 25 different settlements including all of the following: Antimony * Athens * Baker Springs * Buck Range * Carl * Center Point * Corinth * Cowling * Dial * Dierks * Duckett * Galena * Henry * Howe * Markham * Martha * McNab * Mineola * Mineral Springs * Minnie * Nashville * Saratoga * Schaal * Tollette * Umpire *

Section Two of two, ALL on one CD: The complete 1890 "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard County, Arkansas" by the Goodspeed Publishing Company
This detailed (77 pages in all) book has a large amount of information about Howard County, Arkansas from its earliest settlement up to 1890. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Howard County, Arkansas including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of 116 different family biographies.
 

Here is just some of the information included:

• Soils

• Agriculture

• Timber

• Livestock

• Minerals and Mining

• Property Valuations

• Population of Howard County

• Howard County Officials

• Howard County Organized

• Boundaries of Howard County

• Howard County Rivers and Streams

• Churches in Howard County

• Howard County Lodges

• Howard County Newspapers

• Schools in Howard County

• Negro Uprising of 1883

• Howard County Crime Record

• The Civil War in Howard County

• Howard County Cities, Towns, and Villages: Antimony City * Centre Point * Mineral Springs * Nashville * Picayune * Saratoga

• Howard County Biographical Sketches

Included is a total of 116 Howard 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):  Anderson * Baker * Barefield * Bell * Bishop * Briggs * Burgess * Cheatham * Clark * Click * Collins * Copeland * Corn * Coulter * Cowling * Dickinson * Dillard * Downs * Draper * Epperson * Faulkner * Feazel * Forgy * Fricks * Gilbert * Gillean * Goodlett * Goodwin * Gosnell * Graves * Green * Grounds * Hancock * Hester * Hill * Holt * Hudspeth * Hughes * Hutchinson * Hutchison * Jackson * Jacques * Jenkins * Johnson * Jones * Kelley * Kennedy * Lane * Latimer * Lee * Levi * Littlefield * Logan * Martindale * McClendon * McCrary * Millwee * Moncrief * Morgan * Neal * Norwood * Parker * Parrish * Pate * Pinkerton * Poe * Pope * Price * Props * Rector * Reeder * Reese * Rodgers * Shaver * Shepherd * Smith * Somervell * Spates * Stone * Sutton * Sypert * Toland * Tollett * Turner * Turrentine * Van Dyck * Wallace * Watkins * Watson * Westbrook * Whitmore * Williams * Womack * Yowell 

Howard County is located in Southwest Arkansas and is bordered by the following counties: Sevier County, Arkansas * Polk County, Arkansas * Pike County, Arkansas * and Hempstead County, Arkansas (highlighted county names can be clicked on for further description)