Clarksville post office mural

Clarksville, Johnson County

Photograph of How Happy was the Occasion — Photo: Mary M. Purser, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Source

Mary Purser based her 1939 mural on a county history book. It shows Clarksville around 1840: townspeople rush to meet the Little Rock to Springfield stagecoach as the driver holds up the mail, and the flag by the courthouse has just 25 stars. It is the only Arkansas mural that shows the post office it hangs in.

Kind of place: Art and murals
Built by: Treasury Section of Fine Arts
When: About 1939
Where: Clarksville, Johnson County
Still there?: Not confirmed lately

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Sources

University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas Post Office Murals

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.