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72036. Area code. 870. FIPS code. 05-15550. GNIS feature ID. 2404137 [2] Cotton Plant is a city in southern Woodruff County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 529.
The Cotton Plant Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic civic and commercial center of the city of Cotton Plant, Arkansas. It includes about two blocks of Main Street (Arkansas Highway 38), between Elm and Ash on the south side, and between Pine and just short of Vine on the north side. The district includes 19 historically ...
The Battle of Cotton Plant also known as Action at Hill's Plantation or Action at Cache River or Action at Round Hill[1] (July 7, 1862) was fought during the American Civil War in Woodruff County, Arkansas. Frustrated in its attempt to march to Little Rock by a lack of supplies, the Union Army of the Southwest under the command of Samuel Ryan ...
Tharpe was born on March 20, 1915, as Rosetta Nubin in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, to Katie Bell Nubin and Willis Atkins, who were cotton pickers. However, researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc give her birth name as Rosether Atkins (or Atkinson), her mother's name being Katie Harper. [16] Little is known of her father except that he was a singer.
William Bunch was born in Ripley, Tennessee, in 1902, [1] [2] the son of James Bunch and Mary (Burns) Bunch. [3] There is some speculation Wheatstraw may have been born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, where he was buried, and blues musician Big Joe Williams stated that this was his hometown.
In Arkansas, cotton was grown more than any other cash crop and it was a powerful element of the economy and was the center of many people’s lives and livelihood. The sharecropper system and way cotton was grown changed very little from early sharecropper to sharecroppers / tenant farmers of the 1920’s and 1930’s.
3rd and Walnut Sts. / 35.286389°N 91.365833°W / 35.286389; -91.365833 ( Augusta Presbyterian Church) Main St. roughly between Pine and Ash Sts. / 35.004622°N 91.252475°W / 35.004622; -91.252475 ( Cotton Plant Commercial Historic District) Junction of N. Main and N. Vine Sts.
The Cotton Plant water tower is a historic elevated steel water tower located in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. It was built in 1935 by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company in conjunction with the Public Works Administration as part of a project to improve the area's water supply. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008, as ...