ARKANSAS A-Z: Conway college aimed to educate young women in 1800s

Founded in 1892, Central College in Conway was supported by the Arkansas Southern Baptist Association with the aim of educating young women. The school closed in 1950, and the campus now houses Central Baptist College, the only institution of higher education in the state affiliated with the Baptist Missionary Association of Arkansas. Efforts by Arkansas Baptists to open a college to educate women date to the 1880s. In 1890, the state convention authorized Col. G.W. Bruce of Conway to chair a committee to select a location and open the institution....