Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Foreman, AR

Foreman is a small city in Little River County in the southwest corner of Arkansas, on State Highway 41 about twenty miles north of Interstate 30.

The town began as Rocky Comfort, a settlement that grew up around a natural spring shaded by willow trees and was earlier called Willow Springs.

Foreman has twice been the seat of Little River County: Rocky Comfort held the courthouse from after the Civil War until 1880, and Foreman again from 1902 until the seat moved to Ashdown three years later.

When the Arkansas and Choctaw Railroad built past the town in 1895, the depot and post office a mile north took the name Foreman — for a Texarkana civic leader — while residents kept calling their town New Rocky Comfort, and the U.S. census even counted the two names as separate towns in 1940 and 1950.

Because legal documents long used both names, Foreman was not formally incorporated under its present name until February 20, 1959.

Foreman sits on chalk and limestone laid down by an ancient shallow sea, and after a 1920s cement plant went bankrupt in the Depression before ever opening, the Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company invested $15 million in 1957 to build the cement plant that still anchors the town's economy under Ash Grove Cement.

The plant's success revived a community whose population had dwindled so far by the mid-1950s that its leaders feared the town might be abandoned.

Four Foreman buildings stand on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Episcopal church built in 1898 and the 1902 jail, which now serves as a city museum.

Foreman maintains a forty-acre park and a community center and markets itself as a haven for hunting and fishing in Little River County.

Country singer Tracy Lawrence, who was raised in Foreman, returns for benefit concerts that fund his foundation's education support for children from Foreman and the surrounding area.