Editing Marmaduke, Arkansas (section)

==History==
The town of Marmaduke was named for [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] [[Major General]] [[John S. Marmaduke|John Sappington Marmaduke]], remembered for the [[Battle_of_Poison_Spring#Massacre|Poison Spring massacre]] and who later served as [[List of governors of Missouri|governor of Missouri]]. Marmaduke was said to have established a camp for his soldiers near the site of the present town.<ref>Tina Easley, "[http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=893 Marmaduke (Greene County)]," ''Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture'', 2017.</ref> The [[St. Louis Southwestern Railway|Texas and St. Louis Railroad]] was built through the area in 1882.

Marmaduke was incorporated on August 2, 1909, and, by 1914, had expanded to include two drugstores, three banks, three restaurants, a [[Methodist]] and a [[Southern Baptist]] church, two barber shops, a hotel, a boarding house, and two [[dime store]]s. The primary employers at the time were a sawmill, a lumber mill, a stave mill, and large and cut timber distributors.

Current industry includes the Anchor plastics company and the American Railcar Company.

The community was severely damaged by a [[April 2, 2006 tornado outbreak|severe tornado]] on April 2, 2006. At least half of the town was reported to have been destroyed or even flattened, and nearly every structure received some degree of damage. No one was killed in Marmaduke, but at least 50 people were injured, some seriously. In 2009, a major [[ice storm]] came across the northern part of Arkansas, causing the village, together with other regions, to lose electricity for a few weeks. Since then, the town has almost fully recovered.