Editing Scott, Arkansas (section)

==Points of interest==
[[Image:Scott, Akansas - Depot.JPG|thumb|left|Cotton Belt Railroad Depot at Scott Plantation Settlement]]
The Arkansas Department of Parks Heritage & Tourism operates two facilities in the Scott area, one on the Pulaski County side and the other on the Lonoke County side, each with a focus on local history:
* [[Plantation Agriculture Museum]], located on the Pulaski County side, displays artifacts from Arkansas's agricultural history in large farming operations, particularly cotton cultivation. The museum is housed in a circa-1912 general store building, and also features a restored 1912 cotton gin, Seed Warehouse #5, and chronicles the period from Arkansas's statehood to the end of World War II focusing on tenant farming and agricultural mechanization.
* [[Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park]], located on the Lonoke County side, focuses on the site of a Native American civilization that lived just east of present-day Scott nearly 1,000 years ago. Mounds at the park comprise one of the most significant remnants of Native American life in the state, and are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. The Arkansas Archeological Survey, part of the [[University of Arkansas]] system, maintains its Plum Bayou Research Station and laboratory in the park's visitor center.
Additionally, the history of Scott can be found at other sites around the community. 
* Immediately northeast of '''Scott Charter School''' on the Pulaski County side is the [[Scott Plantation Settlement]], a grouping of relocated buildings including the wooden Cotton Belt Railroad Depot that served Scott, collected to represent the area's plantation-era heritage (much in the same fashion as Little Rock's [[Historic Arkansas Museum]]).
* [[Marlsgate Plantation]], also known as the [[Dortch Plantation]], is the area's best known example of a plantation family home, constructed on the Lonoke County side. In 1885, William Pinkney Dortch married into the more influential Steele family. By 1904, Dortch had established a new plantation, centered around a mansion named Marlsgate built on Bearskin Lake, which was designed by architect [[Charles L. Thompson]]. It is a popular site for weddings and receptions today. It is listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]].
*[[Longbridge Plantation]] is an Estate home, also known as the Charles Alexander House, located on the Pulaski County side. It was designed by the [[Charles L. Thompson]] architectural firm for Charles Newton Alexander around 1906 on Hills Lake in Young Township, Scott, Arkansas, just east of [[Galloway, Arkansas]] along [[Highway 70]]. Alexander moved to Pulaski County in In 1879 at 21 years old. He began farming upon arrival and added to his original holdings, until he became one of the largest and most influential land owners in central Arkansas. Alexander was President of the '''Rose City Cotton Oil Mills''', director in the '''Exchange National Bank of Little Rock''' [[Exchange Bank Building (Little Rock, Arkansas)]], and a director of the '''Arkansas Cotton Growers Association'''. He was also on the '''Highway Commission of Arkansas'''.
*James Robert Alexander, who had settled in the area in 1882, built [[Land's End Plantation (Scott, Arkansas)]] in 1925; its central house was designed by [[John Parks Almand]]. It is a 5,000-acre (2,000 ha) working plantation, located on the banks of the Arkansas River. The main plantation complex includes a 1925 [[Tudor Revival]] house, and more than 20 outbuildings. AR 161, which passes close to the main house, is lined by pecan trees planted about 1900 by Alexander. It is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] since 1999.
* The [[All Souls Church (Scott, Arkansas)]] Interdenominational Chapel is an architectural gem from the turn of the twentieth century. It was designed by [[Charles L. Thompson]] and built by George Leifer. Conoway Scott donated land for a new church building, and Charles N. Alexander donated construction materials. The cornerstone was laid on June 27, 1906. The first service in All Souls Church was held on January 13, 1907, led by Methodist minister Forney Hutchinson. Situated along the county line, the church building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and has been in continuous use by the congregation since 1907.
*The [[Fred and Lucy Alexander Schaer House]] and [[Ashley-Alexander House]] (located in nearby [[Galloway, Arkansas]]), and The Cotham House located in Scott are historic homes located in the area with connections to historic local families.
*Prior to a fire that destroyed the structure in 2017, [[Cotham's Mercantile Store]], a widely known community restaurant favored by former President Bill Clinton, and famous for its Hubcap Burgers and Mississippi Mud Pie, was housed in a former general store building constructed in 1912, and displayed multiple antique farm implements.