The cities of Rogers and Bentonville opposed the incorporation of the city, but circuit court judge William Enfield ruled in favor of Little Flock. The incorporation was completed on November 16, 1970. Advised by attorney Gene Coffelt of Bentonville, the association arranged to incorporate Little Flock as a second-class city. Resident Grace Herr learned of the planned landfill and helped to organize the Little Flock Improvement Association. That same year, Cal Haskins bought the school building and demolished it, using the lumber to build a house on Brush Creek.Īround 1970, a sanitation company employed by the City of Rogers acquired land near Little Flock, intending to use that land for waste disposal. The Little Flock school was consolidated into School District No.
The two-room schoolhouse remained in operation for seventy-five years. In 1866, after the Civil War had ended, a school was built next to the Baptist church on Simeon Wight’s farm. Three years later, it was used to shelter Confederate soldiers before the Battle of Pea Ridge, fought a few miles north of Little Flock in March 1862. The congregation’s first church building was erected in 1858. Drawing inspiration from a verse in the Bible-Luke 12:32, which says, “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom”-they named their congregation Little Flock Regular Baptist Church in the 1890s, the name became Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church. In 1843, several families met in a log schoolhouse to found a Baptist church. James Harvey Wight was one of the first to homestead in the area that is now Little Flock his neighbors included Noah Hornbeck, Theopholus Wallace, Amos Osborn, and Benjamin Walker.
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The Osage claimed northern Arkansas as hunting ground at the time of the Louisiana Purchase, but a series of treaties with the Osage and other tribes opened the land for white settlers. The city’s principal landmark is the Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church, which was organized in 1843. Although it remained unincorporated until 1970, Little Flock was established in the 1840s.
Little Flock is a residential community in northwestern Arkansas, Benton County, located north of Rogers (Benton County) and east of Bentonville (Benton County).
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