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Goodspeed's History of Benton County, 1889

Source: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas: From the Earliest Time to the Present, Including a Department Devoted to the Preservation of Sundry Personal, Business, Professional and Private Records; Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Etc., Etc. (Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889)

Much of the Goodspeed History of Benton County has been transcribed and contributed to the USGW Archives. The page numbers are embedded in two large text files and appear below as a finding aid. The sections appearing on this site were transcribed by Pat Asher, July 2015.

Index

LOCATION & BOUNDARY

TOPOGRAPHY & NATURAL HISTORY - pp.14-19

SETTLEMENT
The First, Others, Later Settlers, Nativity and Character, Hardships, Pioneer Weddings, etc.

INDIANS - pp.34-36
Tribes, Removal

COUNTY ORGANIZATION - pp.36-39

PUBLIC BUILDINGS - pp.39-48
Lost Records, Court-houses, Jails, Poor-House

MUNICIPAL TOWNSHIPS - pp.48-52
Roller, Prairie Creek, Alterations, Decatur, Garfield, Yell, Washington

PUBLIC HIGHWAYS - pp.52-54)

RAILROADS - p.55

PUBLIC LANDS & THEIR SURVEYS - p.56

AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE - pp.57-61

BENTON COUNTY FINANCES - p.62

SOCIETIES - pp.62-65

ELECTIONS - p.65

COUNTY & DISTRICT OFFICERS - pp.66-70

THE COURTS - pp.70-81

WAR RECORD - pp.82-91

TOWNS & VILLAGES
Avoca, Brightwater, Bentonville, Bloomfield, Eldorado, Cherokee City, Rogers

TOWNS & VILLAGES Con'd.
Garfield, Lowell, Maysville, Nebo, Springtown, Siloam City, Sulphur Springs, Vanwinkle Mills, War Eagle Mills

EDUCATION & LITERATURE

CHRISTIANITY

BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX