The Ouachita County Historical Society promotes and supports the McCollum-Chidester House Museum and the Leake-Ingham Building in Camden, Arkansas as educational and nonprofit institutions. The museum and the Leake-Ingham Building, both listed on the National Register of Historic Places, are open for guided tours Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. They are closed Sunday through Tuesday.  Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for students.  Annual membership dues to the society are $25.  Members are entitled to four issues of the Ouachita County Historical Quarterly.  Meetings of the Historical Society are held four times a year at 6:30 p.m. on the third Mondays in March, June, September and on the first Monday in December at the OCHS Administrative Office at 120 Agee Street in Camden.  Meetings are open to the public.

Correspondence, requests for membership, and back issues of The Quarterly, when available, may be addressed by contacting the society office at OCHS2003@sbcglobal.net or by phone at 870-836-9243. Requests for family history information should be sent  to  Ouachita/Calhoun Genealogical  Society  at   P. O. Box 2092, Camden, AR 71711. 

Kathy Boyette

President
Ouachita County Historical Society
926 Washington Street
Camden, Arkansas 71701

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