Dardanelle, Arkansas
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Dardanelle is a city in northeast Yell County, Arkansas, United States. Its population was 4,517 at the 2020 census. Along with Danville, it serves as a county seat for Yell County. It is located near
For nearly four decades (1891-1929), the bridge between Yell and Pope Counties at the old military road crossing at Dardanelle was the longest pontoon bridge in the U.S. at over 2,200 feet.
Yell County Courthouse in downtown Dardanelle
An oil-on-canvas mural, Cotton Growing, Manufacture, and Export, painted in 1939 by Ludwig Mactarian is on display in the Dardanelle post office.
View of Lake Dardanelle, with reactor at Arkansas Nuclear One visible in background
True Grit (novel)
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True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial within The Saturday Evening Post. The novel is told from the perspective of an elderly spinster named Mattie Ross,
Dardanelle, Arkansas
…James Lee Witt (born 1944), former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency True Grit - the setting for this novel is a farm in the Dardanelle area. Dardanelle Chamber of Commerce…
Front cover of the 1968 Simon & Schuster hardback 1st edition of True Grit by Charles Portis.