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The University of Arkansas was established in 1871 under the provisions of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act of 1862, which provided for federal government support of "colleges for the common man" in each state. Land-Grant colleges were mandated to provide higher education, research and public service in agriculture, engineering and military ...
Billstown (also Bills Town, Bills) is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Arkansas, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Billstown is located on Arkansas Highway 301 near the Little Missouri River . First settled in 1858, [ 3 ] Billstown has active timber and some cattle farming.
Clark County and later from Montgomery County (prior 1880) Naturally occurring hot springs within the county [Note 1] 33,258: 622.16 sq mi (1,611 km 2) Howard County: 061: Nashville: Apr 17, 1873: Pike, Hempstead, Polk, Sevier counties. James H. Howard, a state senator: 12,533: 595.20 sq mi (1,542 km 2) Independence County: 063: Batesville: Oct ...
The Sumner–White Dipping Vat is a historic concrete cattle dipping vat in Ashley County, Arkansas. It is located about four miles northeast of the intersection of U.S. Highway 82 and County Road 69, half a mile in the woods northeast of the Sumner-White Hunt Club. The vat is a concrete structure about 27 feet (8.2 m) long, 4 feet (1.2 m) wide ...
The total length of the structure is about 13 metres (43 ft). It was built between 1930 and 1940 as part of a state program to eradicate Texas tick fever from the state's cattle. The vat's name derives from the Cogburn, who homesteaded a farm in the area, and probably built the vat to serve their needs and those of other nearby farmers. [2]
Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers & Ranchers is an extension of a national program by the same name. Young Farmers & Ranchers is program designed to increase the participation of young men and women, between 18 and 35, in county and state level Farm Bureau Organizations, programs and events.
The city is the county seat of Howard County. [6] Nashville is situated at the base of the Ouachita foothills and was once a major center of the peach trade in southwest Arkansas. Today the land is mostly given over to cattle and chicken farming. The world's largest dinosaur trackway was discovered near the town in 1983.
Clark County is a county located in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census , the population was 21,446. [ 1 ] The county seat is Arkadelphia . [ 2 ]