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Hempstead Co. unveils new courthouse
The county purchased the former bank building for $1.5 million in 2017.
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Story by Christy L. Smith Photos by Caitlin Brown
AAC Communications Staff
fficials in Hempstead County hosted a grand opening for their new courthouse on May 19, 2022. It was almost exactly 82 years to the day that the first court proceedings were held in the previous courthouse on May 13, 1940, according to an article written by Mark Christ, formerly with the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, in the Spring 2017 issue of County Lines. The vintage-1939 building was deemed unsafe several years ago, and the county began reviewing its options. Farmers Bank & Trust officials were planning to downsize and 28
COUNTY LINES, SPRING 2022
