Rison, Arkansas

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Rison

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.

• Rison Texaco Service Station · 0.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  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, AR · 4.4 mi · Local history

  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, AR · 9.1 mi · Local history

  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…

• Old U.S. Route 79 (Kingsland, Arkansas) · 9.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  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…

• Marks' Mills Battleground State Park · 12.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  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…

• Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia 101 · 16.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  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…

• McDonald's sign (Pine Bluff, Arkansas) · 19.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  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…

• Star City Confederate Memorial · 20.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  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…