Osceola post office mural

Osceola, Mississippi County

Orville Carroll painted "Early Settlers of Osceola" in 1939: pioneers landing a boat on the Mississippi around 1855, dodging eddies and sunken trees. He found the farms he saw on his visit too miserable to paint and sketched the river in Louisville instead. The mural burned with the post office in 1966. It is the only Arkansas post office mural that no longer exists.

Kind of place: Art and murals
Built by: Treasury Section of Fine Arts
When: About 1939
Where: Osceola, Mississippi County
Still there?: Reported gone

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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.