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== History == Named after [[Malvern Hill]], [[Virginia]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Gannett|first=Henry|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA197|year=1905|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=197}}</ref> Malvern was founded in 1870 by the Cairo and Fulton Railroad as a city site {{convert|21|mi}} southeast of [[Hot Springs, Arkansas|Hot Springs]]. On October 15, 1878, Malvern officially became the county seat of Hot Spring County. The original inhabitants of the county were Native Americans, trappers, hunters, and farmers. The [[Hot Springs Railroad]], often referred to as the Diamond Jo line, was established as a [[narrow-gauge railroad]] by [[Chicago]] businessman Joseph Reynolds in 1874.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/08/26/100947332.pdf Diamond Joe Reynolds, NY Times Published: August 26, 1888]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.arkansas.com/city-listings/city_detail/city/Malvern |title=Malvern - Malvern Arkansas - Malvern AR |access-date=July 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716100438/http://www.arkansas.com/city-listings/city_detail/city/Malvern |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Reynolds began building the Hot Springs Railroad, which extends northwest from Malvern Junction, a station on the Cairo & Fulton, to Hot Springs, after he had endured unsatisfactory [[stagecoach]] rides to the latter city. Because Malvern was the closest railroad station to Hot Springs, it became an important junction point for passengers transferring from rail to stagecoach to complete their journey to the spas in Hot Springs. This was the only railroad into Hot Springs for 15 years. The opening of the Little Rock & Hot Springs Western Railroad in April 1900 provided a more direct access to Hot Springs from [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]] and the north, and both the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf and the Iron Mountain took advantage of this route, effectively cutting the volume of interchange traffic into Malvern. By 1902 passenger train shuttle service through Malvern had essentially ended.<ref>[http://www.railserve.com:80/jump/jump.cgi?ID=17496 RailServe.com]</ref> The Malvern Police Department lost Carson Smith, the deputy, and three officers in the line of duty, all shot to death during the 1930s. They were Clyde Davis,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=3846 |title=The Officer Down Memorial Page Remembers .. |access-date=August 31, 2006 |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927193336/http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=3846 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Leslie Lee Potts,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=10789 |title=The Officer Down Memorial Page Remembers .. |access-date=August 31, 2006 |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927193140/http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=10789 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Hiram Potts.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=10788 |title=The Officer Down Memorial Page Remembers .. |access-date=August 31, 2006 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930055314/http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=10788 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Davis and Leslie Lee Potts were both shot during a domestic dispute on April 21, 1933, a shootout in which they killed the suspect. Hiram Potts, who was related to Leslie Lee Potts, was shot and killed during his March 4, 1935, attempt to arrest two men who were boarding a train illegally.{{Citation needed|reason=This claim needs references to reliable sources|date=October 2013}} During World War II, hundreds of Malvernites moved to the Los Angeles area to take advantage of work in the shipyards—apparently spurred by a couple of residents who found work there and wrote home boasting of 88-cent/hour jobs, which was a decent wage for the time.<ref>Carl Abbott, ''The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West'' (Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1993), 17.</ref>
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