Galloway, Arkansas
Galloway is an unincorporated community located within the city limits of North Little Rock, Arkansas in Pulaski County, Arkansas.[1] It's located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 70 and Arkansas Highway 391. The community is served by I-40 interchange 161. The community is located along the north shore of Hills Lake, a serpentine oxbow formed by a prior channel of the Arkansas River.
History
The area was settled in the mid-1830s. Galloway Station, as it was originally known, was a stop along the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad and was named in the 1870s for the local farmer and businessman Walter A Galloway. W.A Galloway owned and operated a General Store there until the 1890s.[2]
Today
Today the area is located within the city limits of
Longbridge Plantation, Harper-Alexander House, as well as the Ashley-Alexander House and Marlsgate Dortch Plantation in nearby Scott, Arkansas
.
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Galloway, Arkansas
- ^ Presley, L. E. (1889). Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski County, Arkansas: Comprising a condensed history of the state, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the same, a brief descriptive history of each of the counties above named, and numerous biographical sketches of their prominent citizens. The Goodspeed Publishing Company.