Entry Category: Pulaski - Starting with C

The enclave of Cammack Village is a legally incorporated community surrounded entirely by the city of Little Rock (Pulaski County). Created as a site for federally subsidized housing in 1943, it has developed into an exclusive neighborhood renowned for a low crime rate and high property values. The land on which Cammack Village is located was owned by Wiley Dan Cammack, who had allowed it to be used for a Works Progress Administration roads project in the 1930s. In the 1940s, Cammack attempted to have the area annexed by Little Rock, the western edge of which abutted his land, but the city demurred. Cammack therefore turned the land over to a federally subsidized housing project designed to alleviate housing shortages …

College Station, Genevia, and Bucktown are names used locally to identify the U.S. Census Designated Place located around Frazier Pike in Badgett Township in the southeastern area of Pulaski County. William Thompson and L. B. Porter produced a manuscript in 2009 that states the area was once called Motley Heights in the late 1890s and early 1900s, but different names for the area seem to have been used concurrently. The Arkansas Gazette, on August 23, 1908, advertised a “Big Republican Mass Meeting & Barbecue” in the College Park Addition, described as a beautiful suburb to Little Rock (Pulaski County). There were 400 lots to be sold at prices from $25 to $115. The location is described as a thirty-minute drive …

Crystal Hill is a geological formation on the north side of the Arkansas River near Murray Lock and Dam. It is also the name of a neighborhood in the city of North Little Rock (Pulaski County). Nearby Pyeatte-Mason Cemetery contains the graves of some of the early settlers of Crystal Hill. The formation, about seven miles upstream from downtown Little Rock (Pulaski County)—although many early travelers exaggerated the distance to fifteen miles—is a bluff consisting of sandstone and shale. It also contains significant amounts of iron pyrite, which sparkles in the sunlight. River travelers, seeing the sparkle, gave the hill its poetic name. East Arkansas settlers displaced by the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811–1812 began to settle this part of …