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Wilson 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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Wilson AR is in Mississippi County AR
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- Wilson is a town south of Osceola, its name came from Robert E Lee Wilson, who owned about everything there.
The Osceola Times is a newpaper with a long history.
It can be read on microfilm at the Ark. History Commission in Little
Rock, and includes newsy items from Wilson and surrounding areas.
My family, the Lees, lived in Golden Lake as early as 1890 and I'm piecing together the history.
The railroad and major highway between Memphis and St. Louis ran
through the area, and with 6 stops a day by passenger train, the
Joiner, Evadale, Bassett, Wilson area was a bustling community.
Golden Lake is an area south of Wilson, between the highway and the Mississippi river, and today is farmland only.
The Mississippi County historical society is in Osceola, across from the courthouse on the town square.
The population of the area decreased rapidly after mechanical cotton-pickers came into use.
There is a History of Mississippi County book.
The Butler Center for Genealogy in the main library of Little Rock has a copy of this book.
Lepanto is another town in the area, just across the Poinsett county line, that shares much of the history.
The Lepanto museum has photos from Wilson, as well as pictures from the floods and logging days.
One amazing picture shows the Mississippi river frozen, with my Uncle Franklin Lee standing on an ice flow.
I visited the area this summer.
A distant cousin farms in the area, he told me how the steamboats on
the rivers were like the Greyhound Bus, going from point to point and
the dock hands would put people, cargo, livestock on the boats, that
was until the roads were improved and the railroads built.
There is much history in this area.
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Sign (Wilson AR)
Submitted by
Darcy Lee Howard
Poster-#-70-
Towns and wide places in the road in
Mississippi Co AR
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