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COUNTY HISTORY

Desha County Arkansas Genealogy Trails

POST OFFICES--PAST AND PRESENT

1872 COUNTY DESCRIPTION

POST OFFICES--PAST AND PRESENT
Antwerp (1856-1860)
Arkansas City (1872-Date)
Bath (1874/1879)
Beith's Landing (1874-1894)
Bellville (1850-1852)
Bowie (1873/1879)
Butler (1858-1866)
Campbell (1856/1866)
Chester (1869-1880)
Cypress Bend (1837/1855)
Cypress Creek (1858/1875)
Dumas (1879-Date)
El Central (1915-1927)
Eunice (1860/1872)
Glen Low (1881-1882)
Good Luck (1879-1884)
Graddy Landing (1871-1883)
Halley (1884-1971)
Harding (1901-1904)
Harrison (1847/1849)
Harriston (1878-1879)
Henrico (1883-1935)
Holly Glade (1879-1879)
Hopedale (1878/1892)
Kelso (1903/1931)
Knowlton (1894-1927)
Knowlton's Landing (1868-1874)
Laconia (1848-1869)
Laconia (1871-1934)
Lorays (1912-1914)
Masonville (1910-1935)
McArthur (1907-1918)
McGehee (1879-Date)
Medford (1875/1911)
Mouth of Arkansas (1832-1837)
Napoleon (1837/1881)
Norsk (1903-1906)
Oaklawn (1913-1920)
Pendleton (1867-1926)
Pickens (1932-Date)
Poynter (1882-1886)
Prairie Landing (1860/1874)
Red Fork (1852/1920)
Redfolk (1895-1905)
Reed Rur. Sta. (1865-Date)
Reedville (1879-1922)
Refuge (1904-1910)
Relocation Br. (DPO)
Richland (1894-1913)
Rohwer (1904/1973)
Rohwer Rur. Sta. (1973-Date)
Rosemary (1870/1909)
Ross (1917-1929)
Rotan (1895-1915)
Rowher Rur. Sta. (?-Date)
Snow Lake (1905-Date )
Trippe (1879-1899)
Waddell (1884-1891)
Walnut Lake (1879-1932)
Watson (1882-Date)
Watson's (1874-1882)
Wellington (1839-1850)
White River (1825/1918)
Yancopin (1905-1958)

Source: Used with permission from Jim Forte at http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp

1872 COUNTY DESCRIPTION
Contributed by Candi Horton

DESHA lies on the Mississippi, at the mouth of the Arkansas; population, 6,125.
Napoleon is the county site. Timber, gum, buttonwood, etc.; land level, but admits of easy drainage; soil rich alluvial cotton land, and produces that staple in abundance, yielding one and a half to two bales to the acre: has good water transportation. The Little Rock, Pine Bluff and New Orleans railroad runs through this county.

Source: Henry, James P.; Resources of the state of Arkansas,: with description of counties, railroads, mines, and the city of Little Rock;.Little Rock, Ark.: Price & McClure, 1872