Editing Joiner, Arkansas (section)

== History ==
Conflicting histories point to Joiner originally being settled in the 1880's by two different men.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Schlesinger |first=Toney Butler |title=Joiner (Mississippi County) |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/joiner-mississippi-county-6138/ |access-date=January 13, 2024 |website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |language=en-US}}</ref> First, there was D.C. Joyner, a doctor from [[Stewart County, Tennessee]]. He came to Mississippi County after 1861 and settled in what is now the city of Joiner before 1888.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Presley |first=Leister E., Mrs. |title=Biographical and historical memoirs of northeast Arkansas |publisher=Goodspeed Publishing Co. |year=1889 |location=Chicago, Nashville and St, Louis |pages=520}}</ref> Second, there was R.L. Joiner, a businessman from [[Shelby County, Tennessee]]. Joiner came to Mississippi County in 1868, and settled at what is now the city of Joiner in 1880.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Presley |first=Leister E., Mrs. |title=Biographical and historical memoirs of northeast Arkansas |publisher=The Goodspeed publishing co. |year=1889 |location=Chicago, Nashville and St, Louis |pages=517}}</ref>

At some point prior to 1903, executives from the [[St. Louis–San Francisco Railway|St. Louis & San Francisco Railway]] traveled to Mississippi County and met with Rufus Joiner. "After an evening of dinner and entertainment" the railway executives decided to construct a depot in the vicinity of the Joiner household and name it after the family. The depot was constructed in 1903. The following year, the nascent community received a post office.<ref name=":0" />