A blog about the history of the Ozarks and the people who have lived in the region from the earliest recorded history to today.
![Spout Spring—A Place Where People Live](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spout-featured.jpg)
Spout Spring—A Place Where People Live
Spout Spring was a Fayetteville neighborhood settled by formerly enslaved people and their descendants after the Civil War. . . .
![KBRS Bumper Sticker](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/bopper-featured.jpg)
KBRS Bumper Sticker
Springdale’s first radio station, KBRS AM 1340, began broadcasting in September 1949. The last three call letters were chosen for Bentonville, Rogers, and Springdale . . .
![Calico Family](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/96-1-200-featured.jpg)
Calico Family
Calico family members at the Calico homeplace near Clifty (Madison County), Arkansas, March 1914. . . .
![Dwain Cook with a Crazy Quilt](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2006-69-8-featured.jpg)
Dwain Cook with a Crazy Quilt
Dwain Cook poses with a crazy quilt at the family home in Kingston (Madison County), 1934. . . .
![“Cathedral Window” Quilt](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cathedral-quilt-featured.jpg)
“Cathedral Window” Quilt
This circa 1970 “Cathedral Window” quilt was made by Charlotte Shepard of Fayetteville. “Cathedral Window” became a popular quilt pattern in . . .
![Found, Then Lost](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/stack-sack-featured.jpg)
Found, Then Lost
In the 1960s, “Stack-Sack” construction was a new way of building walls made by filling burlap sacks with concrete, stacking them on steel rods, and then coating the exterior with cement. . . .
![A Skeleton in Our (Collections) Closet](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/skeleton-featured.jpg)
A Skeleton in Our (Collections) Closet
This skeleton costume was made by Collegeville Costumes Company of Collegeville, Pennsylvania. . . .
![Fishback School](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2001-49-198-featured.jpg)
Fishback School
Fishback School was established in 1885 as Washington County (Arkansas) School District 68. At that time, the school was about two miles southeast of Springdale . . .
![Pocket Watch](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/watch-91-162-4-featured.jpg)
Pocket Watch
When Lee Gregg asked Betty Jones to marry him in the late 1890s, she asked for a pocket watch instead of a wedding ring. . . .
![For the Fans](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2006-44-5-featured.jpg)
For the Fans
A couple years ago I went to my first-ever minor league professional baseball game. It began a love affair that I thought might wane, but it has not. I went to my first major league game . . .