A history of Parkin,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Parkin from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusParkin is a city in Cross County, Arkansas, United States, along the St. Francis River. The population was 1,105 at the 2010 census, down from 1,602 in 2000. In the 2020 census, it dropped further to 794 people. Due to the recent population loss, a large segment of the downtown area has many abandoned and boarded-up buildings. The town has recently become known as a speed trap.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,105 to 794 (-28%). Half of its homes were built before 1972.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Parkin yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Parkin’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewArkansas tenant farmers evicted J…, 1936: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Parkin
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Parkin, decade by decade
CommonsArkansas tenant farmers evicted January 19361936
CommonsFurniture of evicted sharecroppers on the Dibble plantation…1936
CommonsFurniture of evicted sharecroppers on the Dibble plantation…1936
LOCFurniture of evicted sharecroppers on the Dibble plantation…1936
LOCThe families of evicted sharecroppers of the Dibble plantat…19361990s
1 historic place in Parkin
1 place in Parkin is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Arkansas tenant farmers evicted January 1936 (1936) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.