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Yell County is Arkansas's 41st county, formed on December 5, 1840 and named after Archibald Yell, who was the state's first member of the United States House of Representatives and the second governor of Arkansas ; he later was killed in combat at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War.
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Yell and County
The Arkansas General Assembly defined the state's 64th county on March 22, 1871, and named it Sarber County for John N. Sarber, the Republican state senator from Yell County who had introduced the resolution.
The name Yell can be seen across Arkansas, as in Yell County, Arkansas and Archibald Yell Boulevard in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Atkins developed into a trade center and a cotton market for an area including parts of Pope, Searcy, Van Buren, and Conway counties, as well as northeastern Yell County, where people had access to two ferries on the Arkansas River.
Yell and is
The main island of the group is known as Mainland and of the next largest, Yell, Unst, Fetlar lie to the north and Bressay and Whalsay to east.
The Shetland Field Mouse is the third and the archipelago's fourth endemic subspecies, of which there are three varieties on Yell, Foula and Fair Isle.
Yellville is named after Archibald Yell who was the first member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas, second Governor of Arkansas, and who fell in combat at the Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican-American War.
It is the principal city of the Russellville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Pope and Yell counties.
Havana is home to several small businesses, and the Western Yell County High School and Jr. High School Wolverines.
It is also the inspiration for the lyrics of the Skule Yell, the cheer of the engineering society and likely the oldest surviving Skule tradition:
Yell is 19 miles ( 31 kilometres ) in length, with a maximum breadth of 7. 5 miles ( 12 kilometres ), and is swept all around by very impetuous tides.
:" The island is roughly rectangular and nearly cut in two where the long voes of Whale Firth and Mid Yell almost meet.
Much of the interior of Yell is covered in a peat blanket, often as much as 10 feet ( 3 metres ) thick, which is the result of 3, 000 years of deposits.
Yell and Arkansas's
Yellville was chosen as a name for the town, in honor of Arkansas's second governor, Archibald Yell.
Yell and formed
During the American Civil War, a Confederate unit was formed in Helena, Arkansas, and became known as the “ Yell Rifles ”.
After leaving the Revolution, Dickerson formed his own short-lived band, the Modernaires and toured in support of Billy Idol on his 1984 Rebel Yell tour, frequently joining Idol onstage.
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