Arkansas Place Names

by Ernie Deane
Category: "Travel"
Pages:193
Year of Publication:1986
Date Added:08/27/2022
Date Read:08/27/2022
Notes:Subtitle: From Apt to Zinc By Way of Oil Trough, Toad Suck, Smackover and Ink

Short accounts of how counties, towns, and various other features got their names.
My Rating: 6

Reviews for Arkansas Place Names

Review - Arkansas Place Names

More of a reference work than a read-through book. A few of the entries are entertaining because of the history, but the author did little to make any of them more entertaining. Most of the book was forgettable slogging.

Of note, Faulkner County was named for the fiddler/storyteller who popularized The Arkansas Traveler
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