The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗O’Kean was settled before the Civil War, and is named for the priest of the St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Father James O’Kean, who frequently stopped in the community en route to nearby Pocahontas. With the construction of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway in the 1870s, O’Kean expanded rapidly. A railroad tie manufacturing operation was among the businesses established in the city during the period. O’Kean incorporated in 1913.
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Start O'Kean’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how O'Kean’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10O'Kean, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in O'Kean is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean O'Kean has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Building Number 29 in Walnut Ridge, 6.8 miles away.
O'Kean and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.