Cincinnati, Arkansas

Episode 76 / 11 July 2018 / 143 min / full

Don't Wear Overalls To Court

"We are going all the way to Cincinnati. Arkansas. It's in the northwest part of Arkansas, right on the western border near the Oklahoma border, in Washington County." about 0:05:17

The case: Murder of Pauline Devore (June 2007). Read the case file.

The figures, as told in 2018

Population

1,268

Median age

33.8

Median household income

$37,335

Median home value

$123,100

Cost of living

82

Religious

58%

Property crime

▼ about 15% lower

Violent crime

▼ about 20% lower

History, in brief

• Before 1857 the settlement was not known as Cincinnati. about 0:10:21
• Its original name was Buzzard Roost. about 0:10:50
• It was later renamed Sylvia. about 0:11:50
• The first post office there was the Sylvia Post Office, established in 1838. about 0:13:08
• In its early years it was a thriving place and people came from Fayetteville for supplies. about 0:13:20
• It became Cincinnati in 1857, named after the nearby Cincinnati Creek. about 0:14:21
• By 1887 it was booming; a newspaper report that year put aggregate sales at $224,935. about 0:15:31
• In 1887 the town had five general merchants, two milliners, a druggist, a wagon factory, an agricultural implement factory, two blacksmiths, two tanneries, two harness shops, an undertaker, two shoe shops, a merchant and custom mill, two physicians, a dentist, a hotel, a livery stable, an academy and two churches. about 0:16:25
• By 1911 the post office had closed and the mail was diverted to Summers. about 0:16:46
• The area was settled more heavily in the 1830s and forties and became farmland; a sizable number of slaves were used in the 1840s to work the farms. about 0:17:04
• On New Year's Eve 2010 a three-day tornado outbreak produced 37 tornadoes across five states and killed nine people; the worst reached peak intensity at Cincinnati with winds estimated at 142 miles an hour. about 0:20:36
• Two people were killed when a trailer was destroyed and another man died tending cattle when a barn collapsed. about 0:22:06
• George W. Bond, a Cincinnati High School graduate who became president of Louisiana Tech University, is the only notable person from the town. about 0:22:59

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