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Henry R. Koen Forest Service Building

Russellville, Pope County

Photograph of Henry R. Koen Forest Service Building
Photo: Atuprof, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

Urban Forest Service and CCC headquarters, with congressional appropriation and Treasury architectural design.

This short description comes from the inventory details. A fuller story hasn’t been written yet.

Kind of place
Forests, fire towers and conservation
Built by
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
When
About 1939
Where
Russellville, Pope 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.