I've been prepping for a road trip for a while. This has been in the works for quite some time. More than a year, actually. I've got four things to accomplish this upcoming trip, three of which are geocaching related:1. Complete the last three counties of Oklahoma.2. Pass through Enid again.3. Sign the Oklahoma 77 … Continue reading Pre-Gaming →

Now this is a lovely way to end a road trip with a handsome specimen of a courthouse! And, as a strange turn of chance, this happened to be the source of some interesting baseball trivia! Apparently, the courthouse was built on the site of baseball fields which were the first spring training site in … Continue reading 491. Hot Springs, Garland County (AR43) →

I wish I could tell you more about what I thought about the courthouse, but it was a little hard to focus for two reasons: 1) it was, as you can see, quite dark, and hard to get a good look at since I wasn't traveling with my low light solution (sure, there was enough … Continue reading 490. Mount Ida, Montgomery County (AR42) →

I screwed up. Plain and simple. As you can see from the title, this county has two seats, one of them not far from Russellville. Unfortunately, I just completely missed Dardanelle and headed straight for Danville. It's particularly tragic because I passed through Dardanelle to get there. I'm counting this county. I've been to one … Continue reading 489. Danville/Dardanelle, Yell County (AR41) →

Lots of ambient light! I actually got some decent shots of this one. Of course, the badly placed streetlight kind of washes things out a bit, but somehow I'll manage. I wanted to call this another wonder of the WPA, but I read (for the first time apparently) that the WPA wasn't founded until 1935. … Continue reading 488. Russellville, Pope County (AR40) →

With obligatory note that I've been to one of these both at home and abroad, Arkansas is getting a track record of courthouses that I approve of. After the last few counties, it's quite nice to keep that streak going. This is also the last one that I was going to be able to photograph … Continue reading 487. Clarksville, Johnson County (AR39) →

Booneville turned out to be another wonder of the WPA. What is they knew about making courthouses? Is it just that as they've gotten older their look has become more classic to us? Or what there an intentional choice that to do something that we just don't get any longer? It was built in 1928 … Continue reading 486. Booneville/Paris, Logan County (AR38) →

Ozark is another one of those Arkansas specific courthouses. Charleston, on the other hand, is handsome in red brick. I not only like both of them, but I think I am actually quite happy with them in general. Both are good looking and traditional as opposed to some places that have one really good one … Continue reading 485. Ozark/Charleston, Franklin County (AR37) →

I'm pretty sure this is the courthouse, Fort Smith withstanding. If it's not the courthouse, it's an old courthouse. For a while I suspected it was an old courthouse because it was only flying the US flag (and something else), not the Arkansas flag. It turned out there was a second flagpole with an Arkansas … Continue reading 484. Van Buren, Crawford County (AR36) →

The courthouse in Greenwood is OK. After seeing Waldron, it couldn't be worse. Fort Smith, though obviously newer, is nice. I don't dislike either of them. And, as we turn to the right in Fort Smith, we run across what has started to become my least favorite quote to see on any memorial ever! Monument … Continue reading 483. Greenwood/Fort Smith, Sebastian County (AR35) →