Editing Gravette, Arkansas (section)

==Early history==
[[File:Kindley House in Gravette, AR.jpg|thumb|The historic [[Kindley House]] was built in 1873 and added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (NRHP) in 1988.<ref name="nris" >{{NRISref|2010a}}</ref>]]
The original name of the first European-American settlement at this location was '''Nebo'''.<ref>[http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=832 Gravette early history]</ref> The Nebo area is now referred to as Old Town in Chalk Valley and was the earliest pioneer settlement of the community. The settlement was platted in the 1870s by Joseph P. Covey, who relocated to [[Southwest City, Missouri]], in 1881. Ellis Tillman Gravett opened the Chalk Valley Distillery in Nebo and was also the proprietor of a general merchandise store. In 1891, he moved that store west out of the valley to what is now downtown Gravette.

Gravette was aided around 1898 by arrival of the [[Arkansas and Oklahoma Railroad]] (later acquired by the [[St. Louis-San Francisco Railway]]) which greatly stimulated the fruit-growing industry in the region by providing easy access to markets.<ref name=Database>{{cite web|url= https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=167938 |title=Arkansas & Oklahoma Railroad, Gravette|publisher=Arkansas Heritage Marker (accessed on The Historical Marker Database)|accessdate=August 12, 2023}}</ref>
Gravette was formally incorporated on January 27, 1899. By 1910 the population of Gravette amounted to 569.