Cabot, Arkansas

The settlement first appeared in 1873 and is thought to have been named after railroad executive George Cabot Ward.

The First Baptist Church was established in 1876, and the Cabot United Methodist Church in 1881.

Grandberry began publication of the first newspaper in 1885, named "The Guard".

By 1889 businesses began growing alongside the railroad tracks.

The city of Cabot was officially incorporated November 9, 1891, as the 139th city in Arkansas.

The Bank of Cabot (later merged into Centennial Bank) was founded in 1903.

In 1905, 428 poorly marked graves were exhumed by a group of Confederate veterans and moved to a new site at Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery.

=== Bedroom community === In 1972, the Little Rock School District, slow to comply with the 1954 US Supreme Court case Brown v.

=== Recent history === A devastating tornado hit downtown Cabot during the afternoon of March 29, 1976, killing five people and destroying multiple buildings.

In 1982, a group of volunteers from Cabot began maintaining the cemetery, which had fallen into disrepair.

On August 10, 2006, Cabot Junior High School North experienced a devastating fire which was believed to have started as a small electrical fire in the library caused by a faulty...

=== 2010 census === As of the census of 2010, there were 23,776 people, 5,432 households, and 4,329 families residing in the city.

A new multimillion-dollar library/public meeting complex was completed and opened in 2015.

== Demographics == === 2020 census === As of the 2020 United States census, there were 26,569 people, 9,780 households, and 6,967 families residing in the city.