Editing Imboden, Arkansas (section)

== History ==
The community was first settled around 1828 and was incorporated in 1887.

In 1912, Imboden elected Joe Sullivan as the youngest elected mayor in the United States of that period. He was 21 years old and paralyzed, so relied on a goat-driven cart. He left the town in 1914 to pursue further education.<ref>Reta Covey, [http://www.couchgenweb.com/lawrence/imboden2.htm "The Story of Imboden Arkansas, Part Two"]. Walnut Ridge: ''The Times Dispatch'' (1975). From the ''Lawrence County Historical Society'' Winter 1982 - Volume 5 - Number 1] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122001530/http://www.couchgenweb.com/lawrence/imboden2.htm |date=November 22, 2008 }}</ref>

Imboden has two public schools. Sloan-Hendrix School was established in 1899 as Sloan-Hendrix Academy, a private school affiliated with [[Hendrix College]] in Conway. It later became  a public  school.<ref>http://shsd.k12.ar.us/History.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314072247/http://shsd.k12.ar.us/History.htm |date=March 14, 2016 }} Sloan-Hendrix history</ref> Imboden Area Charter School, an open-enrollment public charter school, opened in 2002.<ref>http://www.imbodencharter.com/general-information/about/ Imboden Area Charter School</ref>