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05-57260. GNIS feature ID. 2404569 [ 2] Website. www .prescottar .com. Prescott is a city and the county seat of Nevada County, Arkansas, United States. [ 3] The community had a population of 3,296 at the 2010 census. Prescott is part of the Hope Micropolitan Statistical Area .
December 24, 2008. The Prescott Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic commercial core of Prescott, Arkansas, the county seat of Nevada County. Prescott was laid out in 1873, after the railroad was built through the area that is now Nevada County, and the railroad has played a significant role in the city's development.
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]
The Prescott City Cemetery is the principal burying ground for Prescott, Arkansas. It is located in the northwestern part of the city and is roughly bisected by United States Route 371. The modern (20th-century) portion of the cemetery is located on one side of the highway, while a historic section, also known as the De Ann Cemetery Historic ...
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Prescott and Northwestern Railroad ( reporting mark PNW) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Prescott, Arkansas. It is operated by Arkansas Midland Railroad, which is owned by Genesee & Wyoming . The railroad was chartered in 1890, for the purpose of constructing a railroad north-northwest from ...
Nancy Pearl Johnson Hall (October 5, 1904 – January 1, 1991) was the first female Arkansas State Treasurer, serving as a Democrat from 1963 to 1981. Prior to becoming Treasurer, Hall was appointed Secretary of State of Arkansas by Governor Orval Faubus in 1961, after the death of her husband, Crip Hall . Upon her election in 1962, she became ...
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