Star City History

Downtown Star City in the 1950s. Some of the buildings in the image have collapsed, including Star Theatre.

Jefferson Street in downtown Star City in 1913, a bustling street to this day. Building on the left side of image is the Lincoln County Bank. The white building on the right is the C.H. Lyman Store/Masonic Lodge Building. The original steeple of the…

The old courthouse on the townsquare was razed in 1962 after the new courthouse was built. The clock tower is seen collapsing in the photo.

This is the old Gould Southwestern Railroad depot. The name was later changed to the Arkansas Railroad Depot in Star City. The Gould Southwestern ran from Pine Bluff down to Gould and then ran west to Star City.

A group of men hauling timber from the woods into Star City by horse and buggy. Scene is from the early 1900s.

One of the first gas stations in Star City was owned by A.E. "Doc" Nobles. This gas station sat where the Federal Building is now located in Star City at the corner of Jefferson and Wiley Streets.

Rousseau Matthew's Service Station and Garage in 1924. Photograph shows the various changes that occurred on the townsquare after a fire in the early 1920s destroyed several businesses.

The Star City Lumber Company once employeed several hundred people in the late 1940s before closing in 1950. The Lumber Company was one of many lumber companies within Lincoln County, demonstrating the importance of the timber industry to Lincoln…