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Welcome to BCHRS.org. The Boone County Historical & Railroad Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization devoted to the preservation of the historical heritage of Boone County, Arkansas.
The Society sponsors and operates the Boone County Heritage Museum in Harrison, Arkansas.
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The new History & Families book is here!
The new History & Families of Boone County book is here! New Boone County history book now available (9/26/2008) - Following hundreds of submissions and over two years of work by a volunteer staff, the new History & Families of Boone County, Arkansas Volume II book has been published and is now available at the Boone County Heritage Museum.

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History & Families of Boone County, Arkansas Volume II
Annual Railroad Day

Saturday, October 11, 2008
2:00 p.m.

at the Boone County Heritage Museum
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This historic quilt and vintage water fountain reflect off water Tuesday afternoon on the landing between the first and second floors of the Boone County Heritage Museum Water line bursts in museum; third-floor break drips to basement (9/7/2008) - Boone County Historical Society members received an alert at 6 Tuesday morning. Alarms were going off in its museum on the corner of Central Avenue and Cherry Street.

Board members Fred Hudson and Norman Rowe said board president Jim Milum went to the museum and found water 3 to 4 inches deep on the first floor.

He contacted Rowe, who went in the basement and turned off the water for the historic school building.

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History Q & A by Marilyn Breece
Marilyn Breece Local historian Marilyn Breece has written numerous weekly columns for the Harrison Daily Times. In them, she answers questions about local area history and provides detailed insight and interesting facts on people and places of earlier times.

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The 1961 Harrison Flood Collection
This Day in Boone County History
This Day in World History
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