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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R8G_lowell-postal-service_Lowell-AR.html
The earliest postal area was at Cross Hollows. Records show the Bloomington Post Office was changed to Lowell, March 9, 1881 with Paul F. Lewis, Postmaster. Insets show a 1900 Post Office building on North Jackson Street. The one next door to Gree…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R8F_the-bank-of-lowell_Lowell-AR.html
Humphrey Barr, brother of Mrs. L. P. Davis, was an early banker. We know Henry Neal was the banker in 1918. He loaned Elza Tucker's mother $75 to buy a family sewing machine. He charged 10% interest and had a loan limit of $100. Elza has the recei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R8E_old-city-jail_Lowell-AR.html
Location: West of the railroad tracks on Lincoln Street between McClure & Monroe, almost directly across from Allen Canning Company Warehouse. It was about 12' x 12', made of native stone, cemented together. One small window on the north side was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R8D_canning-factory_Lowell-AR.html
January 1936, Tom Farish & Joe Steele started building a canning factory using a lot of donated labor. The first run of green beans was June 26, 1936, tomatoes July 22, 1936, followed by spinach and other products later on. After Tom Farish died,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R80_train-depot_Lowell-AR.html
The St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad was established in 1881. Lowell was a village at that time. The 1889 Goodspeed's History of Benton County says greens, fruits, poultry, timber and railroad ties shipped extensively from the depot. The 1892-9…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R7T_evaporator-near-railroad-track_Lowell-AR.html
This evaporator dried apples over wooden racks with wood fired furnace heat. After drying, the peeled, sliced apples were sprinkled with powdered sulphur as a preservative. They were shipped out in big barrels by railroad cars. This work was nearl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AWO_rev-james-m-ingram_Lowell-AR.html
James Miller Ingram was a captain in the Confederate 6th Provisional Cavalry Partisan Rangers. Years after the war ended, as a self-taught minister he went to preach at a church and was murdered - shot in the back by 19 year old John M. Stone. Dur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AWF_the-butterfield-stagecoach-road_Lowell-AR.html
This marker, set on the Butterfield Stagecoach Road, is placed near the spot where the trail crossed the east-west road between Huntsville and the Robinson settlement in western Benton County. John Robinson, a Revolutionary soldier, settled here a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMIE_original-site-of-bloomington-mudtown-arkansas_Lowell-AR.html
FrontMar. 20, 1839 Trail of TearsMar. 8, 1847 Robinson's Crossroads First Post OfficeFeb. 5, 1858 Name changed to BloomingtonSept. 18, 1858 Butterfield Stage Stop to 1861Dec. 9, 1862 Civil War Skirmishes Aug. 24, 1864 "Camp Mudtown"Mar. 9, 1881 Mo…
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