The railroads changed everything in Arkansas. Following the Civil War, as railroads were built across the state, lumber companies began clearing virgin timber. In the Delta, the land left behind was drained and then used to raise cotton, which dominated the Arkansas economy at the time.
During the first half of the 20th Century, the setting sun would regularly cast its glow upon the the two-story frame mansion situated high atop the limestone bluffs to the
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Robertus Love, born Jan. 6, 1867, near Irondale, Mo., launched his newspaper career at the Louisiana (Mo.) Press in 1883, under the supervision of Judge W.O. Gray, the newspaper’s owner.