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Morrilton

Arkansas, United States
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Morrilton, city, seat (1883) of Conway county, central Arkansas, U.S., about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Little Rock, in the Arkansas River valley. Settlement in the area originated in 1819 at Lewisburg, a trading post founded by Stephen Lewis. The post became an important river port on Point Remove Creek, and in the 1870s the Little Rock and Fort Smith (now Union Pacific) Railroad was built a mile north. The population soon relocated to...

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