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Black Rock, Arkansas

Lawrence County

As written in the 1919 Arkansas Gazette
 
 

Pearl Button Factory
Black Rock is located 94 miles northwest of Memphis, Tennessee, and 186 miles southwest of Springfield, Missouri, at that point where the "Frisco" crosses Black river and is on of the most progressive towns between the two points. We have a nice little city of live, progressive citizens who always extend the "glad hand" to all worthy newcomers. Being surrounded by a fine agricultural, horticultural, poultry, dairy, and stock country, where your hogs, cattle, sheep, goats, and horses fatten on the free range ready for market without one cent of cost to the owners; and we have thousands of acres of fine free range for any and all kinds of stock. Black Rock draws trade from a vast territory, and is the meeting point of more good roads than any other town in the foothills of the Ozarks. Among some of the institutions and things we have, we will mention six churches, two public schools, two good, strong banks, the Bank of Black Rock, and First National Bank, three hotels, two drug stores and ten other stores, two restaurants, meat market, ice plant and bottling works, electric lights, lumber yards, corn and feed mill, wholesale feed store, three sawmills, poultry food factory, pearl button factory employing 80 men, most extensive pearl fisheries in all the country along Black river, and Black Rock the enter of that industry, one depot, and three miles of switch, and has a population of 1,100.

Pay us a visit and see for yourself that we tell the truth, regarding the lands and about the country in general. You will not find our lands a site of barren hills and rocks like so much land that is being advertised at figures so foolishly low that they make one smile. Neither will you find them an overflowed swamp where no one could prosper. Come and see us. You will be pleased and buy. Black Rock is only eight miles northwest of Hoxie, where our two main lines of railroad cross, and 96 miles of hard surface roads under construction.

Black Rock is one of the best poultry and egg markets in North America, many car-load lots being shipped from this point.

Lawrence county is located in the northeast central part of the state. This district is commonly spoken of as "The Ozark Foothills," though it is really not a hilly country. It is more properly an undulating country, abounding in long slants, waves, plateaus and valleys as to surface. Population - 20,100. Increase over 1900 - 25 percent. Land area - 870,295 acres. Increase in value of farm property - 133.8 per cent.
 

Mussel shells waiting to be made into buttons.


For further information regarding Black Rock, write any of the following:
First National Bank
L.B. Poindexter
Clay Sloan
J.M. Metcalf
Gold Stark
J.G. Wells
L.B. Wells
J.F. Moody
Bank of Black Rock
C.K. Metcalf
Fred Adams
N.F. Coffey & Sons Mfg. Co.
R.C. Waldron
J.B. Haley
A.W. Williams
Dr. J.E. Burns
L.B. Sharp
V.C. Howe
Verkler Bros.
J.N. Stark
J.M. Bunnell
Walter Williams
Krone Bros.
S.J. Howe
Location List

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