Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Jones Mills

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Jones Mills

1 of Jones Mills’ places is on the National Register

Its Register listing is the Remmel Dam. Most of Jones Mills was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1969. Below: maps from 1948 on.

1on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

What stands out about Jones Mills’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Jones Mills are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Jones Mills’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jones Mills’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Jones Mills came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Jones Mills.

Read it all →

Jones Mill formerly had three major Reynolds Metals Company plants: The Jones Mills Reduction Plant, the Malvern Cable Plant and the Hot Spring Rolling Mill. The United States War Department in October 1941 announced the Remmel Dam Aluminum Plant would be one of four defense plants built in Arkansas. Reynolds Metals bought the plant after the war.

In September 1985, Reynolds Metals announced it would close its Jones Mills plant and the Patterson Reduction Plant, at Gum Springs, Arkansas, by mid-October.

After the permanent closures, Reynolds Metals reported it was then operating at 72 percent of its revised reduction capacity.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Jones Mills, 1878 to 1948

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Cove Creek post office opens
  3. 1878Post officeThe Cove Creek post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1948On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Jones Mills on the map, 1948 to 1978

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jones Mills. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Jones Mills on the 1948 USGS mapJones Mills on the 1978 USGS map1948Malvern sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Jones Mills.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Jones Mills

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1992
Remmel Dam
Remmel Dam
Structures
All 1 listings
Remmel DamStructure · listed 1992

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Jones Mills

Nobody well known was born in Jones Mills itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

See all →
Billy Bob ThorntonAmerican actor, filmmaker, and musician · b. 1955
Alan LaddAmerican actor · b. 1913
James RectorAmerican athlete · b. 1884
Justin MooreAmerican country music singer and songwriter · b. 1984
Bruce WestermanAmerican politician · b. 1967
Fred JonesAmerican basketball player · b. 1979
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

Another post office, Cove Creek, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Cove CreekShorewood Hills

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Jones Mills’ history

What is on the National Register in Jones Mills?

One place: the Remmel Dam (listed 1992).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.