Everything Rison is known for
Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Rison.
8 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.
Admire this Art Deco service station, a stylish relic from the early days of automobile travel. It's the Rison Texaco Service Station, right here on Main Street in Rison. Built around 1926, this Texaco station wasn't…
Rison, Arkansas, the county seat of Cleveland County, isn't a place often in the national spotlight. But the opioid crisis, which has impacted rural communities across the country, has certainly left its mark here.…
Kingsland, Arkansas, population under 300, maintains a quiet profile. But the echoes of its most famous son, Johnny Cash, continue to reverberate, and not just from the water tower painted to resemble his iconic "Ring…
You're about to drive a piece of history: a section of the original U.S. Route 79, dating back to 1938! Back then, this road was a vital artery. The original Route 79 had been around since about 1916, but it got a major…
Stop here and you're standing on ground soaked in Civil War blood. This is Marks' Mills, where a Confederate ambush turned a Union supply train into a scene of carnage. On 1864, Union forces, struggling to supply their…
Before you sits a relic of a bygone era, the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia 101, the last steam locomotive from the Fordyce and Princeton Railroad. In 1922, the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia built this iron…
Step back in time to the golden age of fast food at this McDonald's. This isn't just any McDonald's sign; it's one of the few surviving single-arch signs from 1962! This particular sign originally stood at McDonald's…
Right here in Star City, this monument isn't just stone; it's a window into how the Civil War has been remembered. This Confederate memorial, standing tall in the town square, invites us to consider its place in…