Dallas County Museum

In September 1993, the State of Arkansas chartered the Dallas County Museum in Fordyce. In the spring of 1995, Frank Hickingbotham, owner of Citizens Bank, donated the old bank building to the museum. Featured at the Dallas County museum are Native American artifacts with an emphasis on the Caddo; Dr. Thomas E. Rhine’s room of medical and military displays; and exhibits on the geology of Dallas County, early settlers and frontier life, trains, and forestry. An early twentieth-century schoolroom is portrayed, with an adjacent room displaying photographs and yearbooks from various schools in Fordyce and around the county. Separate rooms display artifacts from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The museum has approximately 25.000 envelopes of negatives from the Alexander Photography Studio in Fordyce, which operated from about 1930 to 1960.