This is in my research area and I have a lot of information on my county, I will help you. Natural Dam, one of the first settlements in Crawford County, was appropriately names after the distinctive natural scenic features of a solid bed of limestone, six to eight feet thick, which stretches across the width of Mountain Fork Creek to form a natural barrier to the descent of water that flows down the stream a short distance from where it enters Lee's Creek W. T. Larrimore first settled in 1817 and build first mill on the west side of the dam. The book says some remains of this mill are today. He sold the mill in 1838 to son-in-law, Andrew Morton and Washington DuVal. A p.o. was established by the name of Lee's Creek in 1832 with George Duval being appointed to serve 27 Dec.1838 It was then called Lee Creek The name was changed 6 Mar 1839 to Natural Dam and the following were appointed over the post office: Washington Duval, 6 Mar 1839; Andrew Morton 1 Nov 1845; Washington Duvall 31 Jan 1846 (notice the spelling) In 1880's, Mr. Boyd built a grist mill between the old and new settlement. Also he built a cotton gin but they were washed away with the flood of 1883 In the Arkansas Crawford Co Land Grant book I found Washington Duval 3 times Where he had bought land in 38 as a cash entry, 319 ac; 44 cash entry, 160 ac; and 48 as cash entry 81.840 ac. Francis M. Duvall homesteaded in 20 May 1885, 80 A. Below is a list of names taken from the 'History of Crawford Co, AR, buy Miss Clara B. Eno' Ben T. DuVal Fagan's Brigade in both Van Buren and Fort Smith listed as a Confederate soldier buried at Fairview in Van Buren. William Duval, one of men appointed by the Crawford Co court as reviewer to mark and lay off road to Ft. Smith Mrs. E. R. DuVal, dau of Dr. and Mrs. Dibrell of Van Buren (his name was Elias ) Her name was Angela Medors he was from Fort Smith Will any of this help you. I did not do any research just checked a couple of books in my office. Janette in Van Buren, I am president of the genealogy club W. Duval served one term as county treasurer in 1844 arcrawfo-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Today's Topics: 1. Natural Dam (CarolKe5@aol.com) 2. Re: Natural Dam (Grandma24k@aol.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:49:44 EST From: CarolKe5@aol.com Subject: [ARCRAWFO] Natural Dam To: ARCRAWFO@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Looking for info on the Duval family and the mill and public house at Natural Dam, Arkansas? Carolyn ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:56:53 EST From: Grandma24k@aol.com Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] Natural Dam To: arcrawfo@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <408.6bba9a8d.328fec95@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" MY GRANDFATHER WAS BORN AT NATURAL DAM, AR IN 1869. IT IS JUST NORTH OF VAN BUREN. JOHNNIE ------------------------------ To contact the ARCRAWFO list administrator, send an email to ARCRAWFO-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the ARCRAWFO mailing list, send an email to ARCRAWFO@rootsweb.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 email with no additional text. End of ARCRAWFO Digest, Vol 1, Issue 7 **************************************