Ingalls, Arkansas

Ingalls is an unincorporated community in Bradley County, Arkansas, United States, five miles south of Hermitage. Ingalls is situated at 161 feet (49 meters) above mean sea level. Genesee & Wyoming owns railroad that goes through Ingalls. The Fordyce & Princeton Railroad had purchased the railroad after the liquidation of Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

Ingalls was originally known as Crowtown but acquired the name Ingalls, (the same as John James Ingalls a U.S. senator from Kansas) at the insistence of the management of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.[1][2] Warren and Saline River Railroad has a link to railroad maps of Bradley County.

Jerry Wayne Ross of Mount Olive was killed in action on 1966-09-26 in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. has Jerry Wayne Ross named; his (mailing) address was Ingalls, Arkansas.[3]

History, 1900s

The town of Ingalls was first mapped in 1906, about 800 meters north of the current site. In June, 1906, the Rock Island Railroad was built thru Ingalls. In railway company refused to establish a city there because it was only 7.5 km from the Hermitage, and they thought it was too close to one of the others for the two cities to flourish. As a result, Rock Island Townsite Company established Ingalls at its current location in 1907. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&PR) reached Crossett on March 10, 1907.[4] A Rock Island depot was opened at Ingalls in September, 1907.

During the 1920s and 1930s there was a sawmill west of the railroad and west of a small creek branch and north of the road.[5] There was a cotton gin east of the School House and Methodist Church. There was a telephone office owned and operated by Mr. & Mrs. Brooks until about 1964 when dial telephone service became available. During the early 1920s, there was a J. W. Garrison General Merchandise store, Huitt General Merchandise store, Ingalls Post Office and an Ingalls School House.[6] See the pictures at

Ingalls street (picture),[7]

Ingalls Street (picture),[8]

Ingalls High School 1929-1930 Basketball Team (picture),[9]

Union Hill (Ingalls) School Students, July 20, 1904 (picture),[10]

Vick School about 1930 (picture),[11]

Vick School Class - late 1940s to early 1950s (picture),[12]

Vick School Class (picture),[13]

Sumpter's School Finest Basketball Team (picture)[14]

References
  1. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture (EOA) is a project of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) in Little Rock, Arkansas | Bradley County
  2. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway | The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
  3. Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  4. . The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. JSTOR 40542948. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. Eagle Democrat June 12, 1930 | Ingalls Named For Kansas Senator
  6. Bradley County Eagle Democrat | Bradley County Place Names and their Origins
  7. Ingalls street, the early 1920s picture
  8. Ingalls street, the early 1920s picture
  9. Ingalls High School 1929-1930 Basketball Team picture
  10. Union Hill (Ingalls) School Students , July 20, 1904 picture
  11. Vick School about 1930 picture
  12. Vick School Class - late 1940s to early 1950s picture
  13. People at Vick Graded School picture
  14. Sumpter's School Finest Basketball Team picture
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.