![]() ![]() Being good cotton lands, Hempstead County would soon be home to many large farms worked by enslaved people. Another advantage of the area was the rich, deep soil of the Gulf Coastal Plain, the natural division encompassing most of southwest Arkansas. Hempstead County was propitiously situated, sitting astraddle the Southwest Trail - the only thing that could be called a road in early Arkansas - which ran diagonally across the state from southeast Missouri to the Spanish province of Texas. Occupying much of southwest Arkansas, Hempstead County stretched westward from the Ouachita River into modern Oklahoma. 15, 1818, the Missouri legislature adopted a bill to create three new counties in what was then Arkansas County - Clark, Pulaski and Hempstead. Hempstead County celebrated its bicentennial in 2018, presenting an opportunity to take a look at one of the most interesting and historically significant counties in Arkansas. ![]()
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