The History of Bentonville Arkansas

From wilderness to Walmart: The successful evolution of an American town.

"Siloam and Rogers are respectively seven and nine years old. Bentonville, however was an established business and social center before either sprang to existence. It is of the type of solid southern towns, a little slow to take hold of strange things, but withal backed by good hard money, good sense, refinement, and a hospitality as free and kindly, as the sunny skies smiling above their favored region." - Daily Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, August 11, 1888