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Wilson is a city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located in the Arkansas Delta and is surrounded by fertile cropland historically used to produce cotton . Wilson started as a company town in 1886 by Robert E. Lee Wilson , who would build a cotton empire and run it from the city.
The Willson Commercial Historic District encompasses the commercial and industrial heart of Wilson, Arkansas.Founded in 1886 as a company town by Robert Edward Lee Wilson, the city's growth was regulated and planned by the company until it was formally incorporated in 1950.
The Wilson Residential Historic District encompasses a cluster of four upscale residences just northeast of downtown Wilson, Arkansas, a city in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Founded in 1886 as a company town by Robert Edward Lee Wilson, the city's growth was regulated and planned by the company until it was formally incorporated in 1950.
The Nodena site is an archeological site east of Wilson, Arkansas, and northeast of Reverie, Tennessee, in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.Around 1400–1650 CE an aboriginal palisaded village existed in the Nodena area on a meander bend of the Mississippi River.
Robert Edward Lee Wilson (March 5, 1865 – September 27, 1933) was the creator and owner of Lee Wilson and Company, a group of large cotton plantations in Mississippi County, Arkansas. [1] Acquiring much of his father's former swamplands, Wilson formed a logging and farming business that would become one of the largest and most successful in ...
The Wilson Community House is a historic community meeting hall at 10 Lake Drive in Wilson, Arkansas.It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, weatherboard siding, and foundation of brick and stone piers.
James Kelly Hampson (1877 – 8 October 1956) was the archaeologist that excavated and preserved the artifacts from the Nodena site and owner of the Hampson Plantation in Wilson, Arkansas. [1] [2] The Hampson Museum State Park in Wilson, Arkansas is named after James K. Hampson.
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