| People and Scenes of Bates and Surrounding Communities: For Photos and Other Items that may interest you - |
| Go To The Bates School Section - Bates School House Restoration Project with information and photographs. |
| Go To The Today Section- Photographs of people, scenes and things with notes of interest. |
| Go To The Yesteryear Section- Photographs of people, places and things from the past. |
| Go To The Families Section for other special items of interest dealing with families and individuals including links to family history site. |
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| The Purposes and Goals of the Bates Web Site |
| Three major purposes/goals of the web site are: |
| 1.) To inform and provide people with an existing and historical glimpse of Bates, Arkansas and the Communities of Cauthron, Gipson and Weeks. |
| 2.) To gather, develop and present historical and memorable types of information about the people,and places of the community as they are today and as they were yesteryear. |
| 3.) To inform and enlist people's support in the renovation and restoration of the Bates School House, a wonderful old stately building that is an important historical asset to the community. |
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| Some nice e-mail comments! |
| I love the site, I can put faces with the people that I have heard stories about all my life ...... |
| ... I would like to say that this web site is wonderful. Very helpful information to share with other family members. |
| I wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed reading and looking at the old photographs on your web site. |
