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Originally Posted by JolyB
Cal, I've always been fascinated by history, especially American history. Your raising those questions about Sheridan, Ark and Grant County were like throwing raw meat to a lion and sent me to websites for those places. The names were not coincidences. Grant County was formed and named in Feb, 1869, and was named after President elect Grant, who was elected in November, 1868. Given its namesake's reputation for drinking, it is ironically a dry county. You can't make this stuff up. The County Seat of Sheridan was incorporated in 1887. At that time, Philip Sheridan was serving as the commanding general of the US Army. How some of the veterans of the Confederate army who resided there felt about it is anyone's guess.
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I'm surprised I never looked it up, but I felt pretty strongly that it was no coincidence. I traveled around the lower part of the state for 37 years when I worked for the Arkansas Department of Human Services and have been through Sheridan and Grant County many times usually on my way to Pine Bluff and points south all the way nearly to Louisiana and Mississippi in the Delta. That part of the state is the exact opposite of Hot Springs. Here we have the Quachita Mountains(really just big hills), but that part of the state is very flat. Great place to grow cotton and soy beans and rice. We don't grow much up here in the hills except a lot of pine trees and judging by the number of them in my yard, rocks.
06-06-2020, 09:20 PM
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