Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas

The Herald (Mt. Ida) June 11, 1936 The First Stone Business Buildings
The first stone business buildings were erected in 1912. The fronts and West side was built of cut sandstone, which was quarried on the mountain side south of Mt. Ida, and the other walls of field stone. The four store buildings were financed by the Mount Ida Investment company, a Corporation organized, under the Laws of Arkansas, by L.L. Beavers. Construction was under the supervision and direction of John Kohn, a stone cutter and mason. The officers and stockholders of the Corporation were: Dr. L.L. Kennedy, President; C.J. Watkins, Vice President; L.L. Beavers, Secretary and Treasurer; Gibson Witt, W.D. Freeman, W.I. Hovell and J.D. Whittington. These buildings are now occupied by J.H. Alley, Lee Jackson and William Davis.

   

On the Square: City Drug and  soda fountain & Mongomery County News

The old Hickey store, now "The Flower Box".
Sam Newton Hickey and his son Glenn N. Hickey opened a two story buff brick hardware store in Mt. Ida in 1944. The store is located on the courthouse square and was called "Hickey's Hardware and Department Store; its motto was "right on the corner, right on the price." Glenn Hickey also served as mayor of Mt. Ida and deacon of the First Baptists Church.

Hickey Furniture and Hardware

First Baptist Church near the cemetery and Thornton Funeral Home, drive past the Community Center where the library is located.
First Baptist Church, Mt Ida 1998


Mt Ida United Methodist Church 
Photo courtesy of Bill Ray June 2001. 

Opposite Thornton Funeral Home

1959. From the AR Historical Commission web.

2007

Mt. Ida summer 2010 photos below.

Mt IdaJune 2010

26 May 2012

City Council Office

 


Roosevelt Auditorium


Roosevelt Auditorium Mt Ida rock work - local rocks used.


Artist: Harold Van Borkum

Harold van Borkum 1921-2004, born in Beatrice, NE. His main interest was art. Not just pictures and paintings but especially Native American art styles. Harold worked for Walt Disney and a television station in Chicago early in his career. A member of the Marine Corps during WW2. His mission was to draw aircraft. He eventually ending up near Mt. Ida, Arkansas where he enjoyed retirement on five acres.

 


1946 - Bearce


C.H. Herndon 1971 memorial sidewalk


Mt Ida Methodist -June 2010 -  Worship11am Sundays
Pastors Ted DeWeese and Terry Scott


Hwy 27 in Mt. Ida looking west


Hwy 27 in Mt. Ida looking west, 26 May 2012

Loveseat

Feed store

Mt Ida manhole cover

Photo credits: Olwyn , 1998, 2010, 2012

Montgomery County ARGenWeb

"I've lived in big cities all my life, and now I see cows and horses and they're not on milk cartons. It's like I've died and gone to Mayberry."G RKANSAS by Tom W. Dillard
wrote William Ward, an American academic and maxim writer.