Editing Warren, Arkansas (section)

==History==
When settlers from the east began to arrive in south Arkansas, the land was inhabited by the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous]] tribe known as the [[Quapaw]]. The earliest cession of territory was made in 1818, with a later boundary against the neighboring [[Choctaw]] tribe in 1820, opening up the southeastern corner of the [[Arkansas Territory]] for settlement. Although the area had been settled by European-Americans for approximately thirty years, the city itself was not incorporated until 1851. Tradition says the city is named after a former slave, freed by [[Hugh Bradley (Arkansas settler)|Captain Hugh Bradley]], the namesake of the county and leader of the main early settlement party which established the city. The original plat was laid out on land donated by Isaac Pennington, a key member of Bradley's company.

The [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]] map dated 1891 shows a railroad to Warren. A main railroad line ran between [[Pine Bluff, Arkansas]] and [[Monroe, Louisiana]] with spurs to Warren, Arkansas and [[Arkansas City, Arkansas]].

Around the turn of the twentieth century, Warren found itself in the middle of a boom in the timber industry. In March 1901, the Arkansas Lumber Company with headquarters in Warren was incorporated by Moses Rittenhouse and John Embree. In Sept. 1901, the Bradley Lumber Company of Warren was created by Samuel Holmes Fullerton of St. Louis, MO. In 1902, the Southern Lumber Company of Warren was created.

During the 1950s, Potlatch Forests Inc. purchased the Bradley Lumber Company and Southern Lumber Company. The Arkansas Lumber Company went out of business.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030774 | jstor=40030774 | title=The Arkansas Lumber Company in Warren, Bradley County | last1=Shipley | first1=Ellen Compton | journal=The Arkansas Historical Quarterly | date=1987 | volume=46 | issue=1 | pages=60–68 | doi=10.2307/40030774 }}</ref>

Timber and lumber continues to be important to the city's economy, although the lumber yards that were vital to Warren throughout the past century are no longer in operation.

The city's [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]]-era courthouse was originally built in 1903 and still maintains the exterior character, despite necessary refurbishments to the interior offices and courtroom.