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Most of Pineville was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978. Its Register listings are the Old McDonald County Courthouse and the Old McDonald County Jail. Below: 5 old photos and papers from 1911 on and old-book passages.
Pineville dates its founding to 1847 (Wikidata). Its post office opened in 1849.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltOld McDonald County Courthouse is built
In the archivePineville roller millFrom Wikipedia’s history of Pineville.
Pineville was originally named Maryville, and was laid out under the latter name in 1847. The name was changed to "Pineville" in 1849 since another community already had the name of Maryville. Some say that Pineville was named for a grove of pine trees at the original town site, while others believe the name is a transfer from Pineville, Kentucky.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Pineville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Pineville township is one of the original divisions having been established when the county was first organized. Pineville, the county seat, is the principal town, while Lanagan, the railroad station, is not far behind in business importance. The two Sugar creeks and Elk river are the principal streams, but there are numerous valleys that contain many productive
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Big Sugar creek has its source in Benton Co., Ark. , and , enters this county in Mountain township near the southeast corner, runs north and principally west to the town of Pineville where it unites with Little Sugar and forms Elk, or Cowskin river. Little Sugar rises in Benton county, Ark., enters this county at Caverna in White Rock township, and runs west and north
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Pineville’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Pineville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Pineville’s post office has been open since 1849.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1847, according to Wikidata. Pineville’s post office opened in 1849.
Two places: the Old McDonald County Courthouse (listed 2012) and the Old McDonald County Jail (2020).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 Library of Congress (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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