Manila Depot Museum

06/09/2026

These houses used to be all over the place. There are still a few in town if you really look for them. Presley Dispatch finds the best photos to share with us!

The Original Tiny House:

06/06/2026

D-Day June 6,1944 Remember the sacrifices made that day!🇺🇸

06/03/2026

Great article by Revis Blaylock for the Northeast Arkansas Town Courier 🇺🇸

05/26/2026

56 years to the day of his death, one of Garvin Dill’s buddies from Vietnam visited his grave at the Manila Cemetery to plant a flag and lay flowers. James Burkhardt from Tuscadero CA visited the Depot Museum to view Sgt. Dill’s medals and a rubbing of his name from the Wall. Although he tried twice to fulfill his mission in the years since Garvin’s death, today he succeeded. Mission accomplished!🇺🇸 Garvin Dill 2 Jan 1949-25 May 1970 is standing on the top left of the photo.

05/25/2026

05/08/2026

Very interesting! Thanks, Presley Dispatch!

03/25/2026

The old girl is getting a facelift! Mixed feelings about this 🤷‍♀️

02/08/2026

This may explain (or further confuse) the placement of buildings in previous posts. This is a 1913 fire insurance map shared with the museum from Len Ware. It looks like the Manila Supply Store is the yellow “General Merchandise” building on the east corner of Baltimore and Concord Streets. Notice at the end of that block is the bank.

02/04/2026

Photos from a 1902 pamphlet edited and published by J.A. Fox, Assistant Engineer of the St. Francis Levee Board. The pamphlet is an example of literature published to encourage people to buy property in the area. Other towns in Mississippi County are also featured along with Manila (spelled with 2 L’s😳) Notice that Main Street at that time ran east and west along the JLC&E tracks. The pamphlet was donated to the museum by Terry Selby.