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Wynne, AR - History
We would like to provide the residents of Wynne a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Wynne Home page. The Wynne Home page provides as much information as possible on Wynne. Knowing Wynne’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Wynne’s Home page, you will also find Wynne’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Wynne has a population of 7773. 45.8% of Wynne’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.2 are female. 43.5% of Wynne is married and 57.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $88,650, and the average rent is $736. Household median income in Wynne is $36,310, and the individual median income is $26,693. Wynne’s Ethnic is the following: White(65.9%), Black(29.4%), Multiple(4.2%), Hispanic(3.2%), Native(0.4%).
Wynne was named for Captain Jesse Watkins Wynne, a Texan who achieved the rank of captain in the Civil War at the age of just 21. He was famed for leading a group of his captors up to the Confederate lines, where he then marched them to headquarters as his own prisoners. In 1867, Captain Wynne moved to St.
Francis County, Arkansas, and joined the finance company of Dennis & Beck. At that time, the Dennis & Beck company held savings for other companies and for individuals, but eventually, it became the Bank of Eastern Arkansas, and Wynne became its first president. From 1880 to 1885, as the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad was under construction, active steamboat riverports like Wittsburg, at that time the county seat of Cross County, were deserted for the railroads. The location of the settlement of Wynne was first chosen in 1882, when a train derailed, leaving one boxcar without wheels and off the tracks.
That boxcar was then turned upright as a building, and as a compliment to Captain Wynne, it was designated the "Wynne Station". On September 27, 1882, the Wynne Station Post Office was opened. When the east–west railroad line was completed, it crossed the north–south line near the boxcar, and the name "Wynne Junction" became well known in the area.
On May 28, 1888, the "Junction" part of the name was dropped, and the town of Wynne was formed. By the 1890s, the railroad traffic and the resulting activity in Wynne made it a more vibrant town than the town of Vanndale, which had been the county seat since 1886. In 1903, the county seat of Cross County was moved to Wynne. With the advent of the U.S.
Highway System in the 1920s and 30s, U.S. Route 64 was built west from Memphis, through Wynne, and to points west. Also, the north–south Arkansas Highway 1 was built through Wynne, making it an important highway crossroads for several decades, in addition to being a railroad town. Since the advent of the Interstate Highway System, Interstate 40 has largely diverted long-distance travel away from Wynne.
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