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On February 15, 1882, during a period of depressed farm prices and drought, a group of nine Arkansas farmers led by W. W. Tedford, W. A. Suit and W. Taylor McBee met at the McBee Schoolhouse eight miles south of Des Arc in Prairie County in eastern Arkansas and formed the Wattensas Farmers' Club. The club vowed to improve the lives of farmers ...
Gaylon M. Lawrence (March 15, 1934 – July 10, 2012) was an American businessman and farmer. [1]Lawrence owned more than 165,000 acres of farmland in Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi and was the owner of U.S. Airconditioning Distributors, the world's largest privately owned heating, ventilation and air conditioning distributor.
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Arkansas State University (A-State [6] or ASU) is a public research university in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System and the second largest university in the state. The university was founded in 1909 and is located atop 1,376 acres (557 hectares) on Crowley's Ridge. [citation needed]
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By 1836, the Arkansas Territory had become a state of the United States of America. In 1840, the plantation was acquired by Elisha Worthington for US$60,000. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Worthington also agreed to give 250 bales of cotton to Johnson annually for the next ten years. [ 3 ]
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Farm No. 266—Johnny Cash Boyhood Home was the home of singer-songwriter Johnny Cash from 1935 to 1950. Cash moved with his family to a rural community in Mississippi County, Arkansas. [2] The farm house was built in 1934 in a government project to help boost the economy. The Cash family joined the community in March 1935.