Perry’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Perry. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusPerry is a town in Perry County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Perry had a population of 262. It is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 270 to 262 (-3%). Half of its homes were built before 1970.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Perry 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.
Start Perry’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Perry’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewCypress Creek Bridge, Spanning Cy…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Perry
See all 1 →Perry, decade by decade
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1 historic place in Perry
1 place in Perry 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 Cypress Creek Bridge, Spanning Cypress Creek at County Road 64 and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.