July 12, 2007

When Grant County was created in 1869, Arkansas was in the midst of Reconstruction. The businessmen who petitioned the Arkansas General Assembly to create the county were supporters of the Union late in the war. Proposing to name the county after President Ulysses S. Grant, shown here, and naming the county seat after Union general Philip Sheridan was an enticement to the Republican-led government to pass legislation creating the county.