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The arkansas history commission in little rock in cooperation with the genealogical society of utah has just completed the microfilming of older phillips county records at the courthouse. Submitted and reproduced with the permission of rose white, tricounty genealogical society. Phillips county, arkansas genealogy genealogy familysearch wiki. It was named for the first white settler and representative to the first territorial.
Phillips county phillips county is located in the southeast central part of the state bordering the mississippi river. Phillips county officially formed as arkansas 7th county while arkansas was just a territory in may 1820. The collection of the library contains 125,500 volumes. Phillips county is part of the delta region of arkansas. Guide to phillips county, arkansas ancestry, genealogy and family history. It has long been primarily an agricultural community, a center especially for cotton production, and also has. Acrevalue helps you locate parcels, property lines, and ownership information for land online, eliminating the need for plat books. Helenawest helena phillips county encyclopedia of arkansas. It was named for the first white settler and representative to the first territorial legislature of the arkansas territory, sylvanus phillips. Historical maps of arkansas are a great resource to help learn about a place at a particular point in time. Phillips county was formed on may 1, 1820, by the territorial legislature, and was named for sylvanus phillips, the areas firstknown white settler and representative to the first territorial. Phillips county history bibliography kansas historical. This library is affiliated with phillipsleemonroe regional library. Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were taken from the phillips.
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