Walnut Ridge and Hoxie

by Jon Walter and James Whitlow

When word came to "Old" Walnut Ridge that the railroad was coming, Col. Willis Miles Ponder moved the entire settlement a few miles, cleared a site for a depot, and platted the new town in 1874. Not long after, Hoxie was formed when Henry and Mary Boas offered a right-of-way for another railroad through their land just south of Walnut Ridge. Born by the railroads, the towns have been joined at the hip ever since. By 1889, there was a mule-drawn streetcar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467114855
• ISBN13: 9781467114851
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"