Front:
Featured in he Memphis
"Commercial Appeal"
ARKED TREE
LITTLE
ARKANSAS
UNIQUE
THATS us!
IN 1881
A CAMP WAS
ESTABLISHED
FOR RAILROAD
WORKERS
l at the
MARKED
TREE
THUS THE TOWN
WAS GIVEN ITS
UNUSUAL NAME.
The ABORIGINE INDIANS
OF THIS SECTION MARKED A
TREE AT THE BEND IN THE
ST.FRANCIS RIVER AT THIS
PLACE TO POINT OUT A PORTAGE
TO THE LITTLE RIVER
WHICH SAVED TEN MILES OF
UP-RIVER PADDLING.
NO OTHER TOWN
IN THE WORLD
BEARS THE
SAME NAME
ST.
Back:
12,818F
Dr. J. R. Black established the first drug store at
Marked Tree, about 1892 The present Nyal Drug
Store was established by him in 1910, and has been
in continous operation since at the same location,
the center of the business district.
MERE
MWM Color-Litho "Bursheen" Finished. Made Only By MWM Aurora, Mo.
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