To drive through downtown Little Rock these days is to see a city leaning into its own reinvention. Multiple cranes hover above the Arkansas River, part of the massive Interstate 30 bridge replacement, a project that has radiated new energy into the city s core. Nearby, the River Market District hums with activity day and night while other pockets of the urban area on both sides of Interstate 630 bristle with new restaurants, residential and office space, or speak of such things to come.
To drive through downtown Little Rock these days is to see a city leaning into its own reinvention. Multiple cranes hover above the Arkansas River, part of the massive Interstate 30 bridge replacement, a project that has radiated new energy into the city s core. Nearby, the River Market hums with activity day and night while other pockets of the urban district on both sides of Interstate 630 bristle with new restaurants, residences and office space or speak of such things to come.
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Preserving the past: Terry Shipman works to restore his old, old house
Bringing the late 19th century to 2021
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Frank Fellone
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Today at 1:34 a.m.
Much has been done on Newark’s Dearing house since Terry Shipman retired in 2012, but much work remains. The house was put on the National Register of Historical Places in 1976. It was built in 1890 and in 1901 moved from his original site in Akron, two miles to a higher point in Newark. Both are in Independence County.
NEWARK T.H. Dearing and his maternal grandson, Terry Shipman, share a trait.
Call it perseverance.
Dearing was born in 1865, a tough time to be a child of the new South. He was orphaned and kidnapped. Family lore has it that as a child he was once traded for a shotgun and another time for a ham.