historical preservation
Lowell, Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas
Lowell Museum
bike trail
As stated in The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture:
"The city of Lowell was originally a small settlement known as Robinson’s Cross Roads, settled in the 1840s along what was later called Old Wire Road. The original settlement consisted of about thirty homesteaders. The post office was established in 1847, though it later closed and reopened under the name of Bloomington. The road was well traveled and worn with deep ruts, and it became treacherous after rain. Thus, Bloomington became commonly known as “Mudtown” after a rider for the Butterfield Overland Express reportedly got his stagecoach trapped in deep mud there. Camp Benjamin, northeast of town at a site known as Cross Hollow, was established by Confederate forces, which occupied it for the winter of 1861–62, but the actual town was destroyed during the Civil War. About 10,000 soldiers stayed at the camp...
...The Lowell Volunteer Fire Department was organized in April 1973, and the city’s chamber of commerce began operations three years later. In 1968, J. B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., moved its headquarters from Stuttgart (Arkansas County) to Bentonville (Benton County). Within three years, it was moved again to Lowell. In 1988, Lufkin Trailer, another trucking firm, opened its business in Lowell. Somewhat centrally located in the United States, the city quickly became a state center of the trucking industry, sharing in the remarkable population and business growth of northwest Arkansas during the 1990s, with Lowell’s population more than quadrupling during that decade. Another transportation company, Transplace of Dallas, Texas, also has a branch in Lowell. In November 1998, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) opened about halfway between the cities of Lowell and Gentry (Benton County). Among the many recent immigrants are Latinos, who make up about twenty-five percent of the city’s population as of the 2010 census. Lowell also serves as a bedroom community for the larger cities of the area, such as Rogers (Benton County) to the north and Springdale (Washington County) to the south."
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