Siloam Springs / Don Warden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warden, Don., Author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic buildings--Arkansas--Siloam Springs--Pictorial works.

Historic buildings.

Siloam Springs (Ark.)--Biography--Pictorial works.

Siloam Springs (Ark.).

Siloam Springs (Ark.)--Buildings, structures, etc--Pictorial works.

Siloam Springs (Ark.)--History--Pictorial works.

Siloam Springs (Ark.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2012]

Summary:

Siloam Springs was established in 1880 and is known for the beauty of the parks lining Sager Creek as it winds through the downtown. Eight of the springs feeding into the creek were once considered medicinal, which brought health seekers and summer visitors to the town for many years. Visitors and residents also enjoyed Chautauqua programs, concerts in the parks, and dramas in the opera house. White settlement along the creek dates back to the arrival of Simon Sager and family by 1839. The first town along the creek was Hico, which was established around 1845 by Caldeen and Nancy Ward Gunter. Today, Siloam Springs is home to John Brown University, the corporate headquarters for Allens, Incorporated and Simmons Foods, Incorporated, and plants for several industries. This town of more than 15,000 is an Arkansas Main Street Community with three National Register Historic Districts.

Contents:

Pioneering Sagers and town-building Gunters : 1839-1860

Civil War and reconstruction : 1861-1878

Siloam City from boom to bust : 1879-1893

Saved by the railroad : 1894-1929

The new deal : 1930-1941

From World War II to the bypass : 1942-1962

Downtown versus the bypass : 1963-present.

OCLC:

885210080