Water levels inside buildings reached eight feet (2.5 m). On May 7, 1961, heavy rain caused Crooked Creek, immediately south of the downtown business district, to flood the town square and much of the southwestern part of the city. Starr was carried to the town jail, where he died the next morning. During the robbery, Starr was shot by the former president of the bank, William J. The bank robber and convicted murderer Henry Starr was in Harrison on February 18, 1921, when Starr and three companions entered the People's State Bank and robbed it of $6,000.00. In 19, white race riots occurred in Harrison which drove away black residents and established the community as one of hundreds of sundown towns in the South. The town of Harrison was incorporated on March 1, 1876. It is named after Marcus LaRue Harrison, a Union officer who surveyed and platted the town. Harrison was platted and made the county seat. īoone County was organized in 1869, during Reconstruction after the Civil War. In 1955, a monument to memorialize the victims of the massacre was placed on the Harrison town square. On September 11, 1857, approximately 120 members of this wagon train were murdered near Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, by attacking local Mormon militia and members of the Paiute Indian tribe. In early 1857, the Baker-Fancher wagon train assembled at Beller's Stand, south of Harrison.
It is more likely that the discoverers were French hunters or trappers who followed the course of the White River. It is possible that the first Europeans to visit the area were some forty followers of Hernando de Soto and that they camped at a Native village on the White River at the mouth of Bear Creek. By the 1830s, both tribes were removed to Indian Territory. This hostility erupted into a full-scale war in the Ozark Mountains. The Cherokee arrived around 1816 and did not get along with the Osage. The Shawnee, Quapaw, and Caddo people were also familiar to the area. In later times, the Osage, a branch of the Sioux, was the main tribe in the Ozarks, and one of their larger villages is thought to have been to the east of the present site of Harrison. Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the area, probably beginning with cliff dwellers who lived in caves in the bluffs along the rivers.
Harrison Courthouse Square, listed in the National Register of Historic Places Pre-colonial history
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