About Searcy's Searcy Arkansas City Limits

This picture of 916 E Race shows it as it was when Race Street was a quiet little street with residential properties still on it. The builder/draftsman who drew it up had saved pictures and floorplans of some of his creations. His wife was throwing them away and I, being a saver, kept them. I had to do a lot of driving around to find some of them.

The house was added onto and turned into a business by Helen Holder who had a drapery business. Back when folks loved heavy window treatments, she did a fantastic business.

Then it changed hands and became a frame shop. Seems it has changed hands again. Here it is now.

Notice the lovely fence in the front, which is across the street and on land owned by Harding University. Harding bought all the houses in front of this one and took them down.

Some cards come in the mail and they're so pretty and on such high quality paper that we just can't help but look at them and admire.

Here's one. Searcy Arkansas has a newly built nursing home. It is located at 2500 East Moore. For all you Searcy history lovers it is located on the old golf course and right at the Llama Drive entry into River Oaks Subdivision.

The open house is Thursday, Sept 10 from 2-6 pm. Here's the architectural rendering that is on the card. A drive-by indicates it is just this fine looking!

OMG! I'll bet they only sent these to Seniors. They're looking for business. OMG!!

Critters come to our yard. We've caught lots of them in the trap and we give them a free one-way trip ticket to the big woods outside of town.

We've had a troublesome visitor lately that has done nasty things to our back porch. So the trap is set. Now we may know why we haven't caught anything lately.

My godson Nutsy would be able to perhaps help me with this problem. Is the cat guarding the trap to keep a friend out? Is the cat waiting to laugh if some possum gets trapped? Is the cat showing that she's too smart to go in the trap? Help me, Nutsy!!

This great old picture showed up on ebay and I splurged and bought it to share with Searcy readers. It is the best photograph that I've seen of the clinic.

The clinic, as I understand, was actually a hospital. My husband says that his children were born there and he may have had a surgery or two himself at this hospital.

This shows it in 1940 and there is no need to go take a picture of the parking lot that is there now. A parking lot is a parking lot is a parking lot. Right? It's location was right in the middle, almost, of what is now Harding University in Searcy Arkansas.

Now here's a picture of the house that was on the other end of the block. I loved this house and I regret that they ever tore it down for a parking lot!! I believe it was called the Sears House.

I wrote the blog below on Feb 25, 2009. We've had more and more animals come to our house looking for food and perhaps ending up being relocated. Here's a picture of the gatehouse and entrance to the new subdivision. Lots are selling and I believe the lowest priced was $56,350 and the highest $74,880, according to our MLS stats. Two houses are under construction with one of them under contract.

Great little cart-paths snake through the area and lead to the golf course at Searcy Country Club. Landscape artists have been working for months. It has been good to see so many people employed at The Dominion.

The subdivision is almost finished!

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Less than six months ago, the area in front of Searcy Country Club was wooded, filled with soaring pines and deer and skunks and opossums and other wildlife.

Then we noticed heavy equipment out there clearing the area. Then we noticed surveyors planning roads and a subdivision. Hubby came home one day and said, "Well, the lots just took a big jump in price because they hit solid rock where they're trying to dig for the sewer lines."

Driving by it each day has been interesting. Today I snapped a picture of their pretty little gate-house. It will be Searcy's second gated community and the first with a gate-house. What the gate-house will be used for is a mystery. Perhaps it's just looks.

It is attractive though! I love the copper that is shiny and bright right now and the little spires on the top are charming. I could almost do a sequence of how to build a fence. They are putting up concrete blocks and then covering with native stone as you can see in this picture. The name of the subdivision is The Dominion.

It's Searcy's latest and possibly fanciest subdivisions. I'll be watching its progress and hoping to be able to sell a lot or two!! If anyone reads my blogs and remembers my skunk hunts you'll understand why the animals came to my house.