... photographs. The book explored the successes of early entrepreneurs like Max Frauenthal, Joe Frauenthal, Leo Schwarz and A.P. Robinson. The book was available at Hastings and Book Traders priced at $18.99. The Conway Noon Optimist Club honored ...

... Smith school and the African-American school. Conway was founded by three men who were college graduates, Col. A.P. Robinson of Yale, Maj. Harold Borland and Capt. E.M. Merriman of West Point. It is fitting that Conway should become ...

75 years ago (1933) In the "50 Years Ago" (1883) column of were the following items: Col. A. P. Robinson has added another attraction, a fish pond to his beautiful suburban home. The colonel has an eye to beauty as well as to business ...

... the area of present Conway that shows the downtown and central parts as being a swamp. The first land developer, A. P. Robinson, drained the swamp and built the town. Today's developers fill the swamps and build houses. I would not ask anyone ...

... Lonoke, the prosecuting attorney. The hotel was built in 1874 by A. J. Horton, who purchased the lots from Col. A. P. Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Hines purchased the hotel in 1900. Mrs. Hines had continued to operate the hotel after her husband ...

... transportation, the military, education and politics. The book pays homage in a facing page photograph to Col. A. P. Robinson, the father of Conway, who was chief engineer of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad that put Conway on the ...

... December 1875, carried an item about Robinson that year. "A new blacksmith shop, 20x50, is being built by Col. A.P. Robinson for a gentleman from Little Rock who intends to do a general business in the blacksmith and wagon-making line ...

... December 1875, carried an item about Robinson that year. "A new blacksmith shop, 20x50, is being built by Col. A.P. Robinson for a gentleman from Little Rock who intends to do a general business in the blacksmith and wagon-making line ...

... Sammons gave the following information. The first telephone in Conway was when installation was made in 1881 by A.P. Robinson, mayor of the city. Col. Robinson used two tin cans and a string of twine for his circuit to connect his residence ...

... of the present site of Conway. The town of Conway was organized in 1871 by the original owner of the site, Col. A. P. Robinson, who laid the town out on August 1 of that year. The first store opened in Conway in 1871 or 1872 by R. T. Harrison ...