D. Porter West's Early History of Pope County

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Excerpt from D. Porter West's Early History of Pope County: A StoryIn 1830 the Missionaries removed to the Cherokee nation and formed what was called New Dwight. Old Dwight was left in possession of A. W. Lyon who afterwards moved to Batesville. Mr. Lyon came to this county about the year 1828 from the state of New Jersey. During the years 1830 and 1831 he taught school at Dwight, and boarded a portion of his pupils, who were youths from different parts of the then territory a few of whom I will name, Major Ben Duvall of Ft. Smith, Franklin Desha' of Batesville and our old and respected citizen Hon. John R. Homer Scott and his brother, Augustus. Mr. Lyon was an able and efficient teacher, and I think taught the first school of any consequence within the original limits of Pope county, which extended west to Crawford county line, south to the mountains, dividing the waters of Arkansas and Red Rivers, east to the Conway county line, north to the top of the Boston Mountain, near the divide between the waters of the Arkansas and White Rivers (quite a little State in territory).About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.