[Arkansas courthouse]: Lake Village, Chicot Co., erected in 1956-57

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Lake Village, the seat of Chicot County in the flat cotton country of southeastern Arkansas, is the subject here, and the caption dates its courthouse to 1956-57. The card gives no photographer or exact date, so the picture's age is uncertain, though it likely shows the building soon after completion. Mid-century county courthouses like this one were often built to house records, courtrooms and county offices for growing agricultural counties. The photograph is useful for seeing how a small Delta town presented its civic center in the years after World War II.

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