FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Counties have arrive and absent in Arkansas’ heritage and 5 of them are no lengthier with us.
Right here are the 5 counties that no for a longer period exist and what transpired to them:
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Clayton County (1873-75)
Clayton County was recognized as the state’s 67th county in 1873, named soon after state senator John M. Clayton, in accordance to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Citizens in the county did not like the county was named Clayton.
“County citizens were displeased that the namesake of Clayton County was the brother of Powell Clayton, the first Republican Reconstruction governor, who had declared martial law in the space (then element of Greene County), owing to violence focused toward freedmen and Southern Unionists, and who did not enable the county to take part in the slide elections of 1868,” CALS claimed.
A monthly bill by attorney E. Foster Brown was submitted successfully in the 1875 Standard Assembly, which shortened the county name to Clay County in honor of Secretary of State Henry Clay.
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Dorsey County (1873-85)
Dorsey County grew to become the 71st county in Arkansas in 1873 named just after congressman Stephen Dorsey. The identify stood for 12 decades but was modified soon after Dorsey experienced a falling out with Arkansans and petitioned for a name modify.
According to the Association of Arkansas Counties, it was named Cleveland County in 1885, right after the 22nd and 24th U.S. president, Grover Cleveland.
Attractive County (1827-28)
Only around for a calendar year, Lovely County provided all or part of current-day Benton, Washington, and Crawford counties in Arkansas along with elements of existing-day Delaware, Mayes, Cherokee, Adair, Wagoner, Muskogee and Sequoyah counties in Oklahoma.
As part of the Arkansas Territory, Wonderful County was named after Major William Lewis Lovely, an Indian agent to the Arkansas Cherokee.
After being established in 1827, the county rapidly satisfied its demise in 1828 just after a adjust in the western boundary of the Arkansas Territory was made.
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Miller County (1820-28)
Miller County was first set up in 1820 and named just after the initially governor of the Arkansas Territory, James Miller. It bundled portions of present-working day Miller County and 11 Texas counties, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
Even so, the county was abolished in 1838, two a long time after Texas declared its independence from Mexico. CALS says the county was problematic simply because Mexico claimed considerably of japanese Texas then.
The county was reestablished in 1874 with Texarkana as the city seat.
Sarber County (1871-75)
Sarber County turned the 64th county in 1871, named after Senator John Sarber.
Nonetheless, some Arkansans thought Sarber was a “Yankee carpetbagger.”
“Sarber County Democrats vehemently opposed the county being named after Sarber,” the Encyclopedia of Arkansas explained.
The county was renamed Logan County in 1875, honoring Indian agent James Logan.