The local YBMA (Young Business Men’s Association) purchased this 40-acre property along Robins Street in 1946 to serve as home to the Faulkner County Fair.  The YBMA also ran the city’s youth baseball program at the site for over 50 years.

The City of Conway acquired the site and moved the fairgrounds to the new Expo & Event Center on East Oak Street, redeveloping the old YBMA site into a state-of-the-art youth baseball facility that opened in 2010.

Conway Station Park was chosen as the name to pay homage to the town’s early days.

Col. Asa P. Robinson is known as the “Father of Conway.”  In 1869, Robinson came to Arkansas to build railroads.  He became the chief railroad engineer for the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad.  In connection with this work, Robinson received one square mile of land south of the Cadron Ridge, extending south roughly from what is today Prince Street to Dave Ward Drive.

He reserved the northeast corner of his property for the establishment of a town site, and the southern half as private hunting lands and as a plantation for raising shorthorn cattle, hogs, and sheep. Robinson drove a stake in the ground at the place where Conway Station was to be constructed.

A post office was built at Cadron Gap, but later transferred to Conway Station in 1872.  In addition to the post office, Conway Station contained two small stores, two saloons, a train depot, and some temporary housing.

When Faulkner County was established in 1873, Conway Station became the county seat.  “Station” was soon dropped from the name, and Conway, Arkansas, was incorporated on October 6, 1875. 

In 2012, the Boys and Girls Club of Faulkner County relocated their Bob Nabholz Unit to the park, on the corner of Robins Street and South German Lane.