History

Time Tracks - A Time Line For Miller/Bowie
Time Tracks, Years 1000-1799
Time Tracks, Years 1800-1849
Time Tracks, Years 1850-1899
Time Tracks, Years 1900-1949
Early Miller County Records at Red River County
Township History as of 1930
Naturalization Records 1809-1906
Our Heritage
Pre 1888 List of Texarkana Settlers
The Red River and the Great Raft - 1800 History
Catholic Church Official Service and Instruction Book, 1912
Olive Branch Masonic Lodge Charter, 1868
1882-1883 Business Directory - Texarkana, AR
1884-1920 Old records of the Texas and Pacific Railroad
Hoffman Hardware Invoice, abt 1895
Some Local Advertising
Schools
Petition to the President by the Residents of Miller County
Grand Jurors for the November Term of Miller County Circuit Court, Oct. 6, 1884

Communities

Black Diamond, AR, from Bloomburg USA in Cullin Baker Country, Mrs. Beulah McKelvy
Black Diamond, Sulphur Township, Miller County
Bright Star,AR, from The Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas
Bright Star, Arkansas, from Bloomburg USA in Cullen Baker Country | Page 2
Doddridge, Arkansas, from Bloomburg USA in Cullen Baker Country
Doddridge, Sulphur Township, Miller County
Ravana, Arkansas, from Bloomburg USA in Cullen Baker Country
Ravana, Sulphur Township, Miller County
Spring Bank, Sulphur Township, Miller County
Yesterdays RONDO Community, in Miller County, Arkansas

A Basic History of Miller County, Arkansas

Miller County was established in Arkansas Territory on April 1, 1820. However, due to a misunderstanding of the boundry between the United States and Spanish Mexico, much of Miller County was actually inside Texas. The 1820 US Census for Miller County, now lost, was taken in the northeast corner of Spanish Texas. Because of the establisment of Indian Territory in 1828, all the white settlers in southeast corner of present day Oklahoma were forced to leave. Many resettled in the area south of the Red River. The 1830 Miller County Census was taken entirely inside Mexican Texas. With the establishmet of the Republic of Texas, the boundry line was better understood, and Miller County ceased to exist in 1836.

In 1874 the present day Miller County was established having been part of Lafayette County since its creation in 1827.*

*"Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920", William Thorndale and Willaim Dollarhide, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1997.
Read more at Handbook of Texas Online.
Read more at Encyclopedia of Arkansas.