As
is self-evident by the photo, above, there is no place on earth more
pastoral and bucolic than the Ozark Mountains.
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map.
The City of Marshall (see detail map,
below), seat of Searcy County and home to Universal Pultrusions,
straddles U.S. Hwy. 65 in Northcentral Arkansas.
Population of this Ozark Mountains
town has hovered around 1300 since the 1970s. Drive time from Little
Rock is roughly 2 hours and to Branson is roughly 90-minutes. Timber,
dairy, cattle and tourism are the leading industries. Many local
residents can trace family heritage back to the Civil War.
Native son James Morris (a.k.a. Jimmy
Driftwood), who wrote the Grammy Award–winning “Battle of New
Orleans,” graduated from Marshall High School in 1928 and was a
teacher at a rural Searcy County public school when he wrote and
recorded the song in November 1957. Scroll down for a scenic
tour of our region! |