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Before the city of Cabot existed, an 1862 typhoid epidemic took the lives of about
1500 Confederate soldiers previously under Allison Nelson who were camped in
the hills surrounding Cabot and nearby Austin, Arkansas. 428 poorly marked
graves were exhumed in 1905 by a group of Confederate veterans and moved to a
new site at Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery located in Cabot on Rye Drive, just
off Cherry Road between Campground and Mount Carmel Roads. Marble gravestones
were placed over each grave and a large marble obelisk was erected to honor the dead.
In 1982, a group of volunteers from Cabot began maintaining the cemetery, which had
fallen into disrepair.
Early history
The city of Cabot began as a small settlement at a refueling station on the Cairo &
Fulton Railroad. The settlement first appeared in the 1873 and is thought to have
been named after a railroad surveyor. First Baptist Church was established in the
late 1870s and the Bank of Cabot (now Community Bank) was founded in 1903.
The city of Cabot was officially incorporated November 9, 1891 as the 139th city in
Arkansas.
Cabot was often overshadowed in northern Lonoke County by the much larger city
of Austin (originally named Oakland), which was briefly considered for the state
capital. However, Cabot experienced growth during the 1950s and 1960s, due to its
proximity to the Little Rock Air Force Base in nearby Jacksonville which opened in
1955.
Major transportation routes near/through Cabot are the railroad (currently owned by
Union Pacific), the "old highway to St. Louis" (currently US Highway 67/167), and
Interstate 40. Historically, Cabot lay on the Memphis to Fort Smith spur of the
Butterfield Overland Stagecoach Route.
Recent history
A devastating tornado hit downtown Cabot during the afternoon of March 29, 1976,
killing five people and destroying multiple buildings. During the rebuilding of the city,
it was decided to build a new city hall, municipal courtroom, library (since relocated),
and police station on the site of the debris-filled dividing point between the east and
west sections of Main Street, creating City Plaza. Highway 89, which follows the same
path as West Main Street in Cabot, was redirected around City Plaza along one block
of Second Street, to continue its path along Pine Street just south of the Cabot High
School campus.
Cabot has experienced phenomenal population growth from the 1980s to today.
New housing starts, as seen by new subdivided developments, now cover the town.
One reason for such growth was the aforementioned Air Force base, yet the more
plausible explanation stems from a more complicated issue: the school district.
On August 10th, 2006, Cabot Junior High School North experienced a devastating fire
which was believed to have started as a small electrical fire in the library. Which was
caused by a faulty light bulb. There were 100 people in the building at the time,
however fortunately no one was injured. The building burned from 2:30 P.M. to about
9:00 P.M., and the structure was a total loss. Cabot fire and Police Departments say
that this is one of the worst structure fires to have ever occurred in Cabot. The school
was only about 8 years old.
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