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Prairie County Courthouse, Southern District

Prairie County

Floods on the White River made trips to Des Arc hard, so Prairie County got a second county seat at DeValls Bluff in 1885. This two-story courthouse there is the only building the WPA is known to have built in the county.

Kind of place
Courthouses, post offices and city halls
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Where
Prairie 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.