sentences:  As community life developed, farm families could market corn, oats, wheat, tobacco, butter and cream, eggs and meats.After 1881, with the building of the railroad through nearby Garfield and Avoca, and with the rise of the new city of Rogers (all in Benton County), the area's apple industry grew quite strong, supplying an economic boon to Pea Ridge and the county during the late nineteenth century and into the 1920s.Old Wire Road, which took its name from the telegraph lines running beside it after 1860, passed through the area east of Pea Ridge, providing a connection north to Springfield, Missouri, and south to Fayetteville (Washington County) and Fort Smith (Sebastian County).