Editing Redfield, Arkansas (section)

==History==<!-- EDITORS NOTE: Please do not add images to this section. It would quickly become too unwieldy. Thank you. -->
[[File:West James Avenue Bridge.jpg|thumb|left|[[West James Street Overpass]] – listed on [[National Register of Historic Places|NRHP]] May 18, 1995]]
Following the arrival of the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railway,<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, Arkansas: Full Description|url=https://archive.org/stream/pinebluffjeffers00jeffer|edition=World's Fair|publisher=Jefferson County Bureau of Agriculture, Manufactures and Immigration|date=May 1893|page=13|lccn=25000261|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Taylor|first=Clarence|date=August 3, 1962|title=Redfield—Made by a Railroad|newspaper=The Pine Bluff Commercial|location=Pine Bluff, Arkansas}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Happy Birthday, City of Redfield!|newspaper=The Redfield Update|location=Redfield, Arkansas|date=October 1, 1998}}</ref> also known as the "Arkansas Valley Route," a small [[Human settlement|settlement]] grew up around the new station named for [[president (corporate title)|company president]] Jared E. Redfield<!-- EDITORS NOTE: Please do not change the given name to "John" as it would be historically inaccurate. Thank you. --> of [[Essex, Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalhistpjlf00good|location=Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis|publisher=[[Goodspeed Publishing|Goodspeed Publishing Co.]]|date=1889|pages=[https://archive.org/details/biographicalhistpjlf00good/page/134/mode/2up 134], 137|lccn=01001243|ol=24190554M|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref><!-- EDITORS NOTE: This New York Times article contains multiple obituaries. Redfield is the ninth obit (toward the bottom of the page). Thank you. --><ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Obituary Notes|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/10/22/109324106.pdf|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 22, 1889|format=PDF|access-date=May 8, 2017}}</ref> Founded on December 20, 1880,<ref>{{Citation|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, 145 rolls. Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28|publisher=[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]]|place=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> Redfield was [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] by the Jefferson county court on October 18, 1898<!-- EDITORS NOTE: Please do not change incorporation date to "October 29, 1898" as it would be historically inaccurate. Thank you. -->.<ref>{{cite book|author=<!--Not stated-->|title=Jefferson County, Arkansas, Deed Book 34|location=Pine Bluff, Arkansas|publisher=Jefferson County (Ark.) Court|date=n.d.|page=583}}</ref>

Six local properties have been added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (NRHP): [[Dollarway Road]] (1974), [[West James Street Overpass]] (1995), [[Lone Star Baptist Church]] (2005), [[Redfield School Historic District]] (2014), and [[Redfield Commercial Historic District]] (2023).