Nashville, Arkansas Nashville, Arkansas Official seal of Nashville, Arkansas Location in Howard County and the state of Arkansas Location in Howard County and the state of Arkansas Nashville is a town/city in Howard County, Arkansas, United States.
Nashville is situated at the base of the Ouachita foothills and was once a primary center of the peach trade in southwest Arkansas.
Isaac Cooper Perkins (1790 1852) in the region where Nashville now stands around 1835. Settlers later established a post stop along the settlement roads in 1840,:902 903 and a postal service incorporated in 1848. Michael Womack (1794 1861), a Tennessee native assumed to have killed the British general Edward Packenham amid the War of 1812, settled in the region with his family in 1849. The region was then known by locals as "Mine Creek", but was also called "Hell's Valley" and "Pleasant Valley".
Following the war, the village's prospects improved, trade and settlement picked up, and the town was officially incorporated as Nashville on 18 October 1883, with D.A.
Hutchinson serving as the first mayor.:903 Womack is attributed with first proposing the name and called the town after Nashville, Tennessee. The following year, Nashville and Hope were connected via barns , spurring further growth, and the governmental center of county was relocated from Center Point to Nashville. With the establishment of county government in the town, and due to the increased trade and access brought by the barns , Nashville continued to grow.
In the years before the Great Depression, Nashville was a prosperous, if small, town.
According to author Dallas Tabor Herndon, Nashville was "a banking town, with electric lights, waterworks, an ice and cold storage plant, a canning factory, foundries, machine shops, a flour mill, two newspapers, a brick factory, fruit box and crate factory, mercantile concerns...
Nashville is positioned in southeastern Howard County at 33 56 31 N 93 50 53 W (33.942079, 93.847958). U.S.
Arkansas Highway 27 joins US 278 in a bypass around the easterly side of Nashville; SR 27 leads northeast 13 miles (21 km) to Murfreesboro and southwest 8 miles (13 km) to Mineral Springs.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Nashville has a total region of 5.7 square miles (14.7 km2), of which 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.76%, are water. The town/city is in the valley of Mine Creek, a south-flowing tributary of the Saline and Little rivers.
Peach pickers in Nashville in 1915 Peach farming sustained Nashville amid the Depression.
The peach trade came to the Nashville region in the late nineteenth century.
Nashville's peak peach manufacturing was 1950, with over 400,000 bushels collected from 425 orchards.
"Up to 175 boxcars, each carrying 396 bushel baskets, were shipped from Nashville each day amid peak manufacturing years." Late freezes and early thaws in 1952 and 1953 led to the devastation of the peach harvests.
For Howard County growers, the only option was to pull up the trees and convert the territory for other purposes, often pasture for cattle, or to raise chickens," which remain the dominant agricultural products in the Nashville region to this day. Garrett Whiteside Hall is all that remains of the Nashville High School complex assembled in the 1930s.
The biggest find of dinosaur trackways in the world was identified by SMU archaeology graduate student Brad Pittman in a quarry north of the town in 1983, the site of a prehistoric beach. A field of 5 10,000 sauropod footprints were found in a mudstone layer covering a layer of gypsum. Casts 65 feet (20 m) long and 7 feet (2.1 m) wide were made and put on permanent display, first at the courthouse and finally at the Nashville City Park, while many of the initial tracks were disbursed to small-town museums such as the Mid-America Museum in Hot Springs and the Arkansas Museum of Discovery in Little Rock.
Nashville hosts a ground of the Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas.
Nashville High School is a enhance secondary school for students in grades 10 through 12, and is accredited by both the Arkansas State Board of Education and the North Central Association. The high school is administered by the Nashville Public School District.
In the 2006 07 school year, Nashville High School had 43 teachers and a student enrollment of 390, with a student/teacher ratio of 9:1. In 2010, the Nashville Junior High School Quiz Bowl team won the National Championship in Quiz Bowl.
In addition to academic coursework, Nashville High School has active chapters in FCCLA, FFA, and the National Honor Society.
Nashville High School has participated in the EAST Initiative since 2001.
Nashville High School also has an active alumni association.
The Nashville Scrappers compete in interscholastic sports under the sanction of the Arkansas Activities Association in sports such as football, basketball, baseball, cheerleading, cross nation running, golf, softball, track and field, tennis, and trap shooting.
Nashville High School sports squads compete at the class 4 - A level.
Nashville High School jubilated its 100th year in high school football in 2009.
Nashville has active chapters of nationwide and global fraternal service organizations, including Lions Clubs International and Rotary International.
The Elberta Arts & Humanities Council is positioned in Nashville, hosted by the Elberta Arts Center.
Nashville is home to a range of theological groups, representing congregations among the Assemblies of God, Baptists, Methodists, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Roman Catholic Church, the Churches of Christ, Christian Churches, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as non-denominational, charismatic, and Pentecostal congregations.
The first barns to connect Nashville with the encircling area was originally known as the Washington & Hope Railroad Co., chartered in 1876. The first stage of the barns was a 10-mile (16 km) stretch connecting Hope and Washington, Arkansas, in 1879.
In 1881 the barns was retitled the Arkansas and Louisiana Railway Co., and on 1 October 1884 a nearly 26-mile (42 km) extension to Nashville was opened. By the start of the 20th century the barns was directed as an extension of the St.
Louis, Missouri to Texarkana, Arkansas. The earliest trains coming in and out of Nashville directed under the Missouri Pacific Railroad mark.
The second, granted a charter on 22 June 1906, was the Memphis Paris and Gulf (MP&G), later the Memphis Dallas and Gulf. The track ran twenty-five miles from Nashville to Ashdown, Arkansas, and then on to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The MP&G was broken up in 1922 forming the Graysonia Nashville and Ashdown (GN&A) running 32 miles (51 km) from Nashville to Ashdown.
The third barns in Nashville was the Murfreesboro Nashville Southwestern (MNSW), which ran from Nashville to Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in 1909.
Tackett, Arkansas politician who resided for a several years in Nashville and is interred there Thomas Philip Watson, Oklahoma state senator, born in Nashville Dillard, founder of Dillard's, opened his first department store in Nashville. He started his prosperous franchise in 1938 when, with $8,000 borrowed from his father, he opened a small store in his wife's hometown of Nashville.
Aside from a short reconstructionamid World War II, the Dillard Company continued operating and expanding its Nashville location.
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"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Nashville city, Arkansas".
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"National Register of Historical Places ARKANSAS (AR), Howard County".
"Nashville's Sauropod Trackway" NCA CASI Arkansas, Retrieved 2009-09-18 National Center for Education Statistics, CCD Public school data 2006 2007 school year, Retrieved 2009-09-18 Annual report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Arkansas, Volume 3 (Hot Springs: Sentinel Record, 1903):354 "Nashville, Arkansas Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
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