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Events for May 3, 0012 - January 3
Michael Hood: In Search of the Little Rock Maumelle and Western Railroad
CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH
Speaker: Mike Hood
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Ouachita Mountains west of Little Rock held one of the last expanses of virgin timber east of the Rocky Mountains. In 1904, Andrew Johnson Neimeyer moved his sawmill operation from Saginaw, Arkansas, to just south of Little Rock along the banks of the Fourche River and began construction on what would become the Little Rock Maumelle and Western Railroad.