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.
Compiling family histories (1/23/2008) - Douglas W. Sikes (from left), publisher of Acclaim Press, and Norman Rowe, Marlene Rowe, and Marilyn Breece of the Boone County Heritage Museum check and compile the 400 family histories submitted for the History and Families of Boone County, Arkansas: Volume 2. Museum officials are still accepting business and memorial pages, and taking orders for the book. (Photo by Dwain Lair). More...
History Q & Aby Marilyn Breece
Question: Where was the factory in North Arkansas that made whiskey barrels?
Museum receives Fancher history (2/24/2008) - Marie Francois Etienne Cesar Faucher and his twin brother, Pierre Marie Constantin Faucher, were generals serving under Napoleon Bonaparte. Their names are inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe, which commemorates the heroes of France. They are also ancestors of Harley Fancher's.
The tale of the twin generals is just one of the many Faucher-nating stories told in "Touch of Fancher History," a family history recently presented to the Boone County Heritage Museum by Fancher. More...
Fancher honored for reconciliation (10/23/2007) - On Sept. 8, 2007 at a dinner held in Utah, J.K. Fancher Jr. of Harrison, Arkansas was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Mountain Meadows Association Board of Directors.
The dinner was part of a weekend schedule that commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in which 120 members of a wagon train from Arkansas were murdered by Mormons. More...
Woman set to rewrite local history (9/27/2007) - Thanks to the efforts of Diann Fancher, students in Arkansas will now learn about the events that occurred on Sept. 11, 1857, in a southwestern Utah meadow. Fancher, a former history teacher and now the curriculum/GT director at Green Forest, has written an account of the Mountain Meadows massacre that will appear in social studies textbooks used in Arkansas schools.
Fancher's interest in the Mountain Meadows massacre comes not only from a historian's view, but from a personal one. Her husband, Harley Fancher, is a descendant of Alexander Fancher, one of the leaders of the ill-fated wagon train that ended in tragedy. More...
Museum building and Zinc bridge added to National Register (5/8/2007) - With the help of Historical Society member and preservation enthusiast Nita Gould, two historic Boone County structures were recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The State Review Board of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program (AHPP) in Little Rock formally approved nominations for the 1912 Harrison High School building in Harrison, and the Zinc Swinging Bridge at Zinc. Both were officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places January 24. More...
