Phillips County Penal Farm Historic District
Poplar Grove, Phillips County
Phillips County convicts worked the fields at this county farm near Poplar Grove by day and slept in cells at night. In 1935 and 1936 the WPA approved money to build a concrete detention home, and the two-story main jail is its work. The complex is abandoned and overgrown, so look from the road.
- Kind of place
- Courthouses, post offices and city halls
- Built by
- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- When
- 1935 to 1936
- Where
- Poplar Grove, Phillips 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.