Pocahontas post office mural

Jonesboro, Craighead County

Louis Freund's 1939 mural tells Pocahontas history in one picture: Davidsonville, where Arkansas's first post office opened in 1817; a mill on the Eleven Point River around 1835; and the busy river town of about 1900 with its courthouse and the big Biggers Hotel. It now hangs in the Arkansas State University Museum in Jonesboro.

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

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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.