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Heber Springs post office mural

Heber Springs, Cleburne County

Louis Freund's 1939 mural shows a pioneer couple on newly cleared land below Sugar Loaf Mountain: the man swings an ax into a pine, oxen wait at the plow, and the woman draws spring water while holding their baby. Washington made him redraw the oxen three times. It now hangs in the Heber Springs Municipal Building.

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

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Sources

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