Located in Howard County around 130 miles from Little Rock, the
town is nestled at the base of the Ouachita foothills. One of
the largest dinosaur trackways in the world was discovered a few
miles from town. The town was once a major center for peach
trade in the state. Today, cattle and chicken farming are the
main industries. Howard County was created in 1873 from parts of
Hempstead, Sevier, Polk and Pike Counties. Center Point was the
County Seat until 1905, when it was moved to Nashville. The town
once had three railroads, a Missouri Pacific branch from
Nashville that ran from Ashdown to Hot Springs. This railroad
was broken up in 1922 forming the Graysonia Nashville and
Ashdown (GN&A) route which ran from Nashville to Ashdown and the
Murfreesboro Nashville Southwestern line (MNSW) from Nashville
to Murfreesboro. This later became the Murfreesboro-Nashville
railroad which folded in 1952. The GN&A was sold to Kansas City
Southern in the early 2000s A large find of dinosaur trackways
(a path of preserved fo