sentences:  Though the area did not see any formal action during the Civil War, Union troops camped at McKissick Spring on March 5, 1862, shortly before the Battle of Pea Ridge.After the Reconstruction era, the Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad Company connected Rogers, Arkansas and Grove, Oklahoma through western Benton County.The railroad opened the apple and strawberry orchards of the county to new markets, bringing economic prosperity, development, and population growth to the region.