Editing DeWitt, Arkansas (section)

==History==
The Arkansas County Quorum Court determined [[Arkansas Post]], which had served as county seat since 1813, was no longer centrally located within the county following creation of several [[Southeast Arkansas]] counties. A new, more centrally located town was proposed to become county seat. Founded February 19, 1853, the name DeWitt was [[wikt:pick out of a hat|picked out of a hat]] after being submitted by an admirer of the sixth [[governor of New York]], [[DeWitt Clinton]], one of [[List of places named for DeWitt Clinton|many localities named for Clinton during the period]]. The town was [[plat]]ted in 1854,<ref name="Hempstead ">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OFD_49lddgAC&pg=PA830 | title=A Pictorial History of Arkansas: From Earliest Times to the Year 1890 | publisher=Southern Historical Press | last=Hempstead | first=Fay | year=1890 | page=830| isbn=9780893080747 |oclc=03582896 }}</ref> and has had a post office since 1856.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=AR | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=February 9, 2018}}</ref> The city was incorporated in 1875.<ref name="Hempstead " />