Van Buren post office mural

Van Buren, Crawford County

E. Martin Hennings's 1940 mural "The Chosen Site" shows a pioneer family with an ox-drawn covered wagon reaching the spot on the Arkansas River where they will settle, the start of what became Van Buren. Hennings used his wife and daughter as models. It hangs in the Van Buren post office on Fayetteville Road.

Kind of place: Art and murals
Built by: Treasury Section of Fine Arts
When: About 1940
Where: Van Buren, Crawford County
Still there?: Not confirmed lately

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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.