The Hoo Hoo Monument on First Street in
Gurdon, Arkansas
Gurdon is a city in Clark County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,212 at the 2010 census.
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History
The town was founded in the late nineteenth century as a railroad town for the timber industry on the St. Louis, Iron Mou ...
, is a commemoration of the creation of the
International Concatenated Order of the Hoo Hoo, a fraternal society of lumbermen founded in Gurdon in 1892. The granite monument with bronze plaque is located near the site of the Hotel Hall where the Hoo Hoo organization was founded. The monument was designed in the Egyptian Revival style by
George Zolnay and placed in 1909. The plaque was originally affixed to Hotel Hall, but was moved to the granite marker after the building was demolished in 1927. The monument is a rare Arkansas work by Zolnay.
The monument was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1999.
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Monuments and memorials on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Cultural infrastructure completed in 1909
National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Arkansas
1909 establishments in Arkansas
Relocated buildings and structures in Arkansas
Egyptian Revival architecture in Arkansas
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