My gGrandparents live somewhat to the east of there, using the old Belmont PO and stage stop on the Butterfield Overland Express route, and later the RR line which was run through the area toward Fayetteville and Missouri some of this little settlements attracted enough people beyond the PO/general store to continue as place names on the map--what we now call 'towns'...some just faded. Natural Dam seems to have survived. The area's population generally fell off, and its farming ended, so that the old farm properties are hard to locate. I made a completely useless pass at the county land records down at Van Buren, to no effect. Old land records are hard to follow at best, and may give you the names of old land-survey and census-tract 'townships'. long meaningless. What do your census records show? When you call them up, go over to the 'image' of the original census record, using the magnifying-glass tool from the toolbar at the top of the screen, and examine the whole record for other members of the household, near neighbors, etc....and remember that Arkansas was a slave state, even though Crawford County had many unionist settlers, like my gGrandparents, so ask for the Slave Census and search the name of the head of the household-slaveholder, again using the 'image' ...and don't forget to do searches on Google and/or Dogpile on the name of likely persons--I have located several of my missing folks that way, and clarified details of others. Good Luck, and remember the librarian's watchword, "You are not alone" Duncan the Librarian Yarmouth Port, MA WallDuncan@AOL.COM

Sorry, the Butterfield Company did not run stage coaches through Belmont. There was a stage stop and hotel there but a different stage company. Butterfield came down through the route that is now close to Ark Hwy 59, down by Lee Creek, through what today is Cedarville and on into Van Buren. The Belmont community still exists with a road by that name. Look for it at the intersection of S. Cain and Belmont road. Easy to locate by tracing U.S. 71 north of Alma (about 5 1/2 miles)to the intersection of Dow Jones Road. Go east on Dow Jones road until it turns north into S. Cain Road. Belmont is about 1 to 1 1/2 miles north of the where Down Jones road turns into S. Cain Road. The stage route ran on west on Down Jones road, continued west on what today is Mountain View Way and Mountain View Road (depending on which side of I-540 you are on), Mountain View Road turns into Carson Road at the west end. The stage rout went on southwest and crossed Big Frog creek at Dillon Bridge, then on into Rudy. I think Goodspeeds has the name of the stage company recorded. Best and do join the Crawford County Genealogical Society if not already a member. Gail Cowart -----Original Message----- From: arcrawfo-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:arcrawfo-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of WallDuncan@aol.com Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:29 PM To: arcrawfo@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] ARCRAWFO Digest, Vol 1, Issue 13 My gGrandparents live somewhat to the east of there, using the old Belmont PO and stage stop on the Butterfield Overland Express route, and later the RR line which was run through the area toward Fayetteville and Missouri some of this little settlements attracted enough people beyond the PO/general store to continue as place names on the map--what we now call 'towns'...some just faded. Natural Dam seems to have survived. The area's population generally fell off, and its farming ended, so that the old farm properties are hard to locate. I made a completely useless pass at the county land records down at Van Buren, to no effect. Old land records are hard to follow at best, and may give you the names of old land-survey and census-tract 'townships'. long meaningless. What do your census records show? When you call them up, go over to the 'image' of the original census record, using the magnifying-glass tool from the toolbar at the top of the screen, and examine the whole record for other members of the household, near neighbors, etc....and remember that Arkansas was a slave state, even though Crawford County had many unionist settlers, like my gGrandparents, so ask for the Slave Census and search the name of the head of the household-slaveholder, again using the 'image' ...and don't forget to do searches on Google and/or Dogpile on the name of likely persons--I have located several of my missing folks that way, and clarified details of others. Good Luck, and remember the librarian's watchword, "You are not alone" Duncan the Librarian Yarmouth Port, MA WallDuncan@AOL.COM ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

To Gail Cowart.. How does one join the Crawford County Genealogical Society? How much does it cost and does one have to live in that community to join? Tell us some of the benefits of belonging to the CCGS, please? Since all my family moved to Crawford Co. from KY I am very interested. Thanks Evadean ----- Original Message ----- From: Gail Cowart<mailto:cowartd@centurytel.net> To: arcrawfo@rootsweb.com<mailto:arcrawfo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] ARCRAWFO Digest, Vol 1, Issue 13 Sorry, the Butterfield Company did not run stage coaches through Belmont. There was a stage stop and hotel there but a different stage company. Butterfield came down through the route that is now close to Ark Hwy 59, down by Lee Creek, through what today is Cedarville and on into Van Buren. The Belmont community still exists with a road by that name. Look for it at the intersection of S. Cain and Belmont road. Easy to locate by tracing U.S. 71 north of Alma (about 5 1/2 miles)to the intersection of Dow Jones Road. Go east on Dow Jones road until it turns north into S. Cain Road. Belmont is about 1 to 1 1/2 miles north of the where Down Jones road turns into S. Cain Road. The stage route ran on west on Down Jones road, continued west on what today is Mountain View Way and Mountain View Road (depending on which side of I-540 you are on), Mountain View Road turns into Carson Road at the west end. The stage rout went on southwest and crossed Big Frog creek at Dillon Bridge, then on into Rudy. I think Goodspeeds has the name of the stage company recorded. Best and do join the Crawford County Genealogical Society if not already a member. Gail Cowart -----Original Message----- From: arcrawfo-bounces@rootsweb.com<mailto:arcrawfo-bounces@rootsweb.com> [mailto:arcrawfo-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of WallDuncan@aol.com<mailto:WallDuncan@aol.com> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:29 PM To: arcrawfo@rootsweb.com<mailto:arcrawfo@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] ARCRAWFO Digest, Vol 1, Issue 13 My gGrandparents live somewhat to the east of there, using the old Belmont PO and stage stop on the Butterfield Overland Express route, and later the RR line which was run through the area toward Fayetteville and Missouri some of this little settlements attracted enough people beyond the PO/general store to continue as place names on the map--what we now call 'towns'...some just faded. Natural Dam seems to have survived. The area's population generally fell off, and its farming ended, so that the old farm properties are hard to locate. I made a completely useless pass at the county land records down at Van Buren, to no effect. Old land records are hard to follow at best, and may give you the names of old land-survey and census-tract 'townships'. long meaningless. What do your census records show? When you call them up, go over to the 'image' of the original census record, using the magnifying-glass tool from the toolbar at the top of the screen, and examine the whole record for other members of the household, near neighbors, etc....and remember that Arkansas was a slave state, even though Crawford County had many unionist settlers, like my gGrandparents, so ask for the Slave Census and search the name of the head of the household-slaveholder, again using the 'image' ...and don't forget to do searches on Google and/or Dogpile on the name of likely persons--I have located several of my missing folks that way, and clarified details of others. Good Luck, and remember the librarian's watchword, "You are not alone" Duncan the Librarian Yarmouth Port, MA WallDuncan@AOL.COM<mailto:WallDuncan@AOL.COM> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message