Talk:Morrilton, Arkansas

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The following is unreferenced, so I've taken it out of the article: - The French landed at nearby Petit Jean Mountain in the 1700s. Legend says that a young woman had pretended to be a shipmate, which the crew nicknamed "Little John", so that she could spend time with her beau. She grew ill during the journey and died while under care of the local Native American tribe.

- The main settlement in Conway County was Lewisburg, a town of 3,000 plus and a riverboat stop on the Arkansas River. During the railroad boom of the late 1800s, land was not granted through the town, so the railroad built north of Lewisburg.

- The town's name was decided after the railroad came through in the late 1800s. The land was donated to the railroad company by a pair of farmers, Mr. Moose and Mr. Morrill. Both farmers wanted the train stop named after them so they decided that a coin flip would decide the name. Mr. Morrill obviously won and slowly the city of Lewisburg, which was located almost a mile to the south on the Arkansas River, moved to the new railroad station. Today the main streets downtown feature the farmers name and a third street, Division Street, marks the dividing line between where the farms once were.

- Dr. Nemrod Menifee established the first trading post in the county at Lewisburg in 1825. He later donated his plantation land in order to establish the town that currently bears his name.

- The first hospital in Morrilton was Jones' Hospital located on North West Street.

- Morrilton native Lencola Sullivan became the first African-American to place among the Top Five of the Miss America Pageant. Lencola also served as Ms. Arkansas in 1980.

- The original campus of Harding University is now the home of the Southern Christian Home, a residential child care facility supported by the churches of Christ.

- The local radio station, KVOM, was established in 1952 on AM 800. It is still on the air, and an FM (KVOM-FM) was established in 1980.

If this information can be referenced, please feel free to reincorporate this back into the article. However, please don't add it as a bulleted list in it's own section, it would be best to incorporate it into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) ^talk 05:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

See Futher!

At first I thought this was a typo in the article, but viewing the town website reveals that the misspelling of "further" is actually the official town motto. This should be addressed in the article. No wonder the world thinks Arkansans are stupid rubes. -24.144.14.84 (talk) 22:37, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

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