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Stuttgart
Arkansas County - Arkansas Gazette 1919
Main Street Stuttgart 1886
The wonderful story of Stuttgart
and Grand Prairie
The Grand Prairie country comprises a body of land extending through
Arkansas and adjoining counties and lying between the Arkansas and White
Rivers. It is gently rolling and slopes to the southeast. This territory
is drained by numerous streams tributary to the great rivers above
mentioned on its eastern and western boundaries, and the natural
undulation of the prairie provides many driveways, so that overflow,
excessive, or injurious moisture is out of the question. The soil of the
Grand Prairie is a fertile mixture, containing all the elements
necessary for general farming. The subsoil is of a texture that permits
the tiller of the soil to farm either with or without irrigation - rice
being the only crop that is at present irrigated.
Healthful Climate
The climate is all that could be desired - it is genial and healthy. The
summers are long and pleasant, the nights cool and dewy, and the ocean
breeze, prevailing in the warm weather, brings a moisture that tempers
the heat, producing a rainfall and preventing sunstrokes.
Good Roads Abound
Nature has blessed the prairie section in the matter of good roads. They
are easy to make there, because there are no great hills to grade, and
no great amount of work is necessary. The roads for miles out of
Stuttgart are practically level, and even the roads on which no work is
ever done, are available for automobile except in the very worst sort of
weather.
Stuttgart
A city of the first class; 5,500 progressive people, paved streets,
electric lights and waterworks; railroads extending six different
directions; large irrigation companies, creameries; factories; in fact a
substantial city with all modern conveniences.
Schools
Within the past ten or fifteen years the schools of the entire state of
Arkansas have come rapidly to the front and especially is this true of
those in the Grand Prairie section. County supervision, uniform texts,
and a thoroughly up-to-date course of study has done much to bring this
about. In the rural districts the schools are on the eight grade basis
and the course of study following that of the State of Iowa or Illinois
closely. When a pupil completes this work he is ready to enter any
number of the excellent high schools found in the towns on the Prairie.
Stuttgart High School
The schools in Stuttgart enroll almost 800 white pupils annually and the
teaching corp numbers twenty. They are all normal school or college
graduates with the exception of three and the instruction rendered is of
a very high order. The high school is housed in a splendid new building,
erected at a cost of over $80,000, which is modern in all its
appointments. It has a large gymnasium, good library and an auditorium
and seats over six hundred persons.
Churches
Stuttgart has eleven churches of the different denominations, namely,
Methodist Episcopal North, Methodist Episcopal South, Baptist,
Christian, United Presbyterian, and Emanuel Apostolic, Catholic, and
Christian Science.
Citizenship
From time to time, the progressive Northern people, principally from
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Ohio, came here to look into the
agricultural conditions. Being an intellectual type of citizens, they
quickly grasped the situation and saw the possibilities hence left
Northern localities for Stuttgart. This accounts for the high class of
citizens in Stuttgart and vicinity.
Rice Mills
There are seven large Rice Mills on Grand Prairie, three of which are
located in Stuttgart. The three mills at Stuttgart have an aggregate
milling capacity of 6,400 barrels.
Main Street Stuttgart, 1919
Stuttgart Rice Mill Company
Rice Mill "A" & "B"
Dewitt Mill, Dewitt, Arkansas
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