Nashville, Arkansas

==Infrastructure==

===Railroads===
The first railroad to connect Nashville with the surrounding area was originally known as the Washington & Hope Railroad Co., chartered in 1876.<ref name="X4ISAAAAYAAJ 1903">[https://archive.org/details/annualreportrai20commgoog/page/n296 <!-- pg=354 quote=nashville. --> ''Annual report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Arkansas, Volume 3''] (Hot Springs: Sentinel Record, 1903):354</ref> The first stage of the railroad was a {{convert|10|mi|adj=on|0}} stretch connecting Hope and [[Washington, Arkansas]], in 1879. In 1881 the railroad was renamed the Arkansas and Louisiana Railway Co., and on 1 October 1884 a nearly {{convert|26|mi|adj=on}} extension to Nashville was opened.<ref name="X4ISAAAAYAAJ 1903"/> By the start of the 20th century the railroad was operated as an extension of the [[St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway]], which stretched from [[St. Louis, Missouri]] to [[Texarkana, Arkansas]].<ref name="X4ISAAAAYAAJ 1903"/> The earliest trains coming in and out of Nashville operated under the [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]] [[Reporting mark|mark]].

At one time the city boasted three railroads:
* The earliest was the [[St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway|Iron Mountain Railway]] branch from Nashville to Hope.
* The second, granted a charter on 22 June 1906, was the Memphis Paris and Gulf (MP&G), later the Memphis Dallas and Gulf.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5J5KAAAAMAAJ&dq=arkansas%20railroads%20nashville%20Memphis%20Paris%20and%20Gulf&pg=PA376 ''Arkansas Biennial Report of the Secretary of State'', 1905–1906.] (Little Rock: Tunnah & Pittard, 1906):376</ref> The track ran twenty-five miles from Nashville to [[Ashdown, Arkansas]], and then on to [[Hot Springs, Arkansas]]. The MP&G was broken up in 1922 forming the Graysonia Nashville and Ashdown (GN&A) running {{convert|32|mi|km}} from Nashville to Ashdown. The GN&A was merged into the [[Kansas City Southern Railroad]] in 1993.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kav09ZpkS6YC&dq=Graysonia+Nashville+and+Ashdown&pg=PA357 ''American Shortline Railway Guide'', 5th Ed.] Edward A. Lewis (Waukasha, WI: Kalmbach, 1996):357</ref>
* The third railroad in Nashville was the Murfreesboro Nashville Southwestern (MNSW), which ran from Nashville to [[Murfreesboro, Arkansas]], in 1909. The MNSW later became the Murfreesboro-Nashville railroad which folded in 1951.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=954|title=Murfreesboro (Pike County) – Encyclopedia of Arkansas|access-date=26 December 2015}}</ref>