Baxter County History Day at Rapps Barren will be held Saturday at Cooper Park at 1101 Spring Street in Mountain Home. The historic buildings are in a village setting and illustrate Mountain Home’s early days. The settlement opens at 9:00 a.m. with the Rapps Barren cabins open for touring. The Historical Society will be selling ice cream and soft drinks. Lemonade and Funnel cakes will also be sold. Cecilia Watson will be demonstrating rag quilts. Music will be provided by Jeremy Myers and the Daughters of the Revolution and Sons of the Confederacy will be on site. The event is free and co-sponsored by the Baxter County Historical & Genealogical Society and the Mountain Home Parks Department.The schedule of events includes the firing of the cannon at 9:30, noon and 1:00. Speakers in the Shady Grove School will start at 10:00 with Dr. Juliet Morrow, archaeologist and professor of Anthropology at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. Her presentation is titled “The Archeology of the Central Mississippi Valley. At 11:00 Dr. Brooks Blevins, Professor of Missouri State University History Department will present “Bluecoats, Yellow Dogs, and Red Counties: 180 Years of Politics in the Ozarks”. At 12:00 Blake Perkins, Assistant Professor of History at Williams Baptist College will highlight the “New Deal Era Dam Building in Baxter County”.
According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas’ website at http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=826 , Mountain Home was originally known as Rapp’s Barren or Talbert’s Barren, apparently named in honor of the first permanent settler, Henry Rapp who settled the region around 1810.
For more information, contact the Mountain Home Parks Department at 870-424-7275 or the Baxter County Historical & Genealogical Society at 870-425-2125.
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