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Leachville
AR
Mississippi County,
Arkansas 
- Mississippi County AR was formed in 1833 from Crittenden County;
the county seat is
Blytheville & Osceola, AR.
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Leachville
is in Mississippi County AR
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- Leachville was named for Joshua Gilbert Leach of Holly Springs, Mississippi, who acquired the present site and much surrounding land in the 1890's.
Submitted by Donald Hawkins: April 06, 2006
- Rev. James Wiseman Honnoll named the city of Leachville, Arkansas, after his
good friend and business partner Joshua Giles Leach. These two men along
with Sam McNamee started the Leach, McNamee Land and Development Company, in
Leachville, Arkansas. All three of these men were members of the First
Methodist Church of Holly Springs, Mississippi. Rev. Honnoll was the
minister of the church. The parsonage that he and his family lived in is
located behind this church in the center of Holly Springs, MS. This company
purchased several sections of land around the present area of Leachville.
Sunday before Thanksgiving, 1897, the two Honnoll families traveled
from
Garland County to Jonesboro and met J. W. Honnoll. The two families was
Tuggle and Peter Honnoll's. Peter "Uncle Bud" Honnoll was injured during
this trip. He badly broke his lower leg and as a result he walked with a
limp the rest of his life. Honnoll accompanied the families to their new
home -- a high spot in a slough thirty miles east of Jonesboro. Preacher
Honnoll gave his sons forty acres of land a piece to settle..
When Honnoll met his sons, he had the name Leachville, already
painted
on a board and nailed to a sapling outside a make-shift cabin at the new
home site. These make-shift houses were shed-like shelters, sometimes
having only two sides.
Leachville soon became a town known as a tent city. The town was laid
out and the first streets were named for Honnoll and McNamee. This land
is located in the middle of Buffalo Island and was covered with all types of
hardwood, ripe for harvesting by the newly formed company in Leachville.
The first church service was held Thanksgiving Day under big cypress trees.
The first church was named Honnoll's Chapel for J.W. Honnoll.
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Submitted by
Donald Hawkins
Poster-#-94-
Towns and wide places in the road in
Mississippi Co AR
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