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Yell: Yell County
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Yell County's population was 21,139 in the 2000 US Census, a growth of 3,380 from the 1990 US Census, with Dardanelle being the largest city in the County. The County is comprised of 928 square miles. The main industry in Yell County is the production of poultry, with three processing plants and numerous poultry farms.
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Economically, Yell County's leading industries are connected with production of poultry, hogs, and beef cattle. Tourism and recreation are major activities in an area full of lakes (Lake Dardanelle, Nimrod Lake, Blue Mountain Lake), mountains and parts of two national forests (Ozark and Ouachita national forests). Mount Nebo State Park rises 1,800 feet above the mountain valleys and has cabins, campsites, picnic sites, tennis courts, a swimming pool, hiking trails and breathtaking vistas. Mount Magazine State Park offers camping and picnicking. Petit Jean Mountain and Wildlife Management Area offers hunting and scenery.
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The county seats of Yell County are Danville and Dardanelle. The Dardanelle courthouse (Pictured above--Courtesy of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program) was built in 1914, designed by architect Frank W. Gibb, and is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Yell spent several weeks in August 1839 in Ozark, the town which he owned with David Walker and William Haile, selling lots and making deeds to land already sold. He ... attended to the sale of Arkansas lands that he had purchased for Polk and others (2). Financially, this was a prosperous period for Yell. By 1840 in Washington County alone, he paid taxes on 800 acres of land and eight Negro slaves (3). Yell had enough cash on hand at this time to enable him to offer Polk a loan of one to three thousand dollars, after the newly-elected Tennessee governor wrote Yell of the financial troubles he was having as the result of an expensive gubernatorial campaign (4).
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The following information is from the Arkansas State Gazetteer 1898-1899 and contains short descriptions of several communities and towns in Yell County. This information should help those of you who have never been in Yell Co. and are trying to figure out where these small communities were located.
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