Editing Bethel Heights, Arkansas (section)

==History==
[[File:Beasley_Homestead.JPG|left|thumb|The [[Beasley Homestead]] was built in the 1920s and remains as an example of farmsteads from the period]]
{{See also|Prehistory of Arkansas}}
Present-day Benton County was hunted by the [[Osage Nation|Osage]] prior to, and after, the [[Louisiana Purchase]]. Following the [[Treaty of Fort Clark]] and establishment of [[Lovely County, Arkansas Territory|Lovely County]], white settlement in the area began. Settlers around Bethel Heights started claiming land in 1856.

As the communities of [[Lowell, Arkansas|Lowell]] and [[Springdale, Arkansas|Springdale]] expanded toward the Bethel area, residents incorporated as a town in 1967 to prevent annexation.<ref name="eoa" />