Johnson County First Anthracite Coal

Historical marker location:

215 West Main Street, Clarksville, Arkansas

( Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (U.S. 64) and South Fulton Street, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1936

Arkansas was part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which was the largest land acquisition in U.S. history, and the state was later admitted to the Union as the 25th state on June 15, 1836.