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March 20, 1871 | ||
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Arkansas Trails has several counties and projects up for adoption. If you would be interested in adopting a county or project look at the Arkansas Trails County Page. If you find one that you would like to adopt e-mail the State Administrator State Administrator.[ Being a County or State Administrator is fun and rewarding. If you have an interest in the history of Arkansas and the genealogy of it's residents please consider it. If you think "there is no way I can do this" there are many people ready, willing and able to help you. It's not near as difficult as you might think. ] | History |
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Nevada County is Arkansas's 63rd county, formed on March 20, 1871, and named for the State of Nevada due to the perceived similarity between their physical shapes; the Arkansas county's shape roughly follows the same outline as the state's boundary when inverted. Contrasting with the name of the U.S. state, the local pronunciation for the southwestern Arkansas county is "nuh-VAY-duh". The first county court convened on May 8, 1871, at Mount Moriah, a country church that served as a temporary county seat, since no incorporated cities or towns existed in the new county. Mount Moriah is still an active Methodist church between Prescott and Rosston. In 1872, a governor-appointed commission established Rosston as the county seat. On May 19, 1877, voters elected to move the government to the newly created railroad town of Prescott, where it has remained since July 2, 1877. Stephen Vaughan and his wife, Polly, came up the Ouachita and the Little Missouri rivers possibly as early as 1812, settling at a place on the Little Missouri later known as Janes Ferry. Vaughan was the first person in the county to be granted a federal land patent. He bought four tracts along the Little Missouri from the public domain. But he had been dead for two years by the time the patents were granted on December 5, 1823. His widow established her claim to his estate and for years ran a ferry and an inn for travelers heading north to Hot Springs (Garland County). Another early settler was named Bassett. Little is known about him, but two creeks in northeast Nevada County that flow into the Little Missouri were named for Vaughan and Bassett. Thomas Mendenhall of Jackson Township (then in Ouachita County) was a North Carolina native who spent years in Alabama before moving to Arkansas. | Links |
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Free Records Search at Familysearch Org | ||
Nevada County Cemetery Listings on Arkansas Gravestones Project | ||
Nevada County Cemetery Listings on Interment Net | ||
Nevada County Cemetery Listing at Find A Grave | ||
Arkansas Dept of Health | ||
Arkansas Dept of Health Division of Vital Records, Slot 44 4815 West Markham Street Little Rock, AR 72205 (501) 661-2174 Fax: (501) 663-2832 |
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Arkansas State Archives | ||
Arkansas History Commission One Capitol Mall Little Rock, AR 72201 501.682.6900 [email protected] |
The History Commission, the official state archives, is a facility in which those interested in Arkansas history may engage in research. The staff does not undertake research requests from the public. The Research Room is open from 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Monday through Saturday. It is closed on state holidays. If you are traveling long distances, please call to confirm hours/days of operation at 501.682.6900. | |
Arkansas Genealogical Society
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Circuit Clerk 215 East 2nd St. Prescott, AR 71857 Phone (870)887-2511 Fax (870)887-5795 |
County Clerk 215 East 2nd St. South Prescott, AR 71857 Phone (870)887-2710 Fax (870)887-5795 |
Nevada County Depot and Museum Peggy S. Lloyd, Curator 403 West First Street South P.O. Box 592 Prescott, AR 71857 870-887-5821 [email protected] [email protected] | E-Mail Lists and Message Boards |
Arkansas Mail List on Rootsweb | ||
Nevada County Mailing List on Rootsweb | ||
Nevada County Message Board on Rootsweb | ||
Nevada County Message Board on Genforum | Adjacent Counties |
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Ouachita County |
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Lafayette County |