Forrest City, Arkansas

St. Francis County

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Forrest City is a city in St. Francis County in the U.S. state of Arkansas with 14,300 inhabitants ( 2004) and the county seat of administration. The metropolitan area has a size of 42.1 km ². Is named the city after the Southern General and founder of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Attractions

  • Forrest City Downtown Murals
  • St. Francis County Museum
  • Cambell House
  • Man House
  • Stuart Springs

History

The ex-general of the Confederate army, Nathan Bedford Forrest, signed in 1866 with CC McCreanor a contract that had to build a railroad line of the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad from Madison on the St. Francis River to DeValls bluff on the west bank of the River White River to content. The first train ran 1868. V.B. Colonel Izard, the city planned 1868., The cluster of houses was called by the inhabitants unofficially " Forrest 's Town ". Later it was Forrest City. On 11 May 1870 the city was officially founded. 1949 evidence ( fossils ) found that mastodons had lived in prehistoric times within the city limits.

Demographics

Penitentiary

Forrest City Federal Correctional Complex houses the Bundesgefänfnis, Forrest City (FCC Forrest City). The prison, which holds male prisoners, consists of two areas: the Federal Correctional Institution Forrest City Low, a prison with a low standard of security and the Federal Correctional Institution Forrest City Medium (FCI Forrest City Medium) a prison with a medium level of security.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Al Green, singer and preacher
  • Charlie Rich, country singer
  • John W. Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox.
  • Don Kessinger, a professional baseball
  • Albert King, blues musicians
  • Cal Slayton, cartoonist
  • Dennis Winston, NFL players
  • Sonny Liston, heavy waxed world champion in boxing
  • Jimmy Rogers, NFL player for the New Orleans Saints.
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