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Lowell is a fast-growing city in southern Benton County, Arkansas, in the Ozarks foothills of Northwest Arkansas, set between Rogers to the north and Springdale to the south.

The community began in the 1840s as Robinson's Cross Roads, a settlement of about thirty homesteaders along the road later called Old Wire Road, where a post office was established in 1847.

Renamed Bloomington, the settlement became better known as 'Mudtown' because its deeply rutted road turned treacherous after rain — legend holds that a Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach became trapped in the mud there — and Lowell still recalls the nickname with its annual Mudtown Days festival.

The original town was destroyed during the Civil War; Confederate forces had wintered in 1861-62 at Camp Benjamin near Cross Hollow northeast of town, a camp where some 10,000 soldiers stayed.

Landowner J. H. McClure donated lots to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (the Frisco) as it laid track through the area in 1881, the present town was laid out along the railroad, and after a tornado destroyed many buildings in nearby Bloomington, residents dismantled the surviving buildings and moved them to the new Lowell site.

Lowell incorporated on August 17, 1905, and its schools — the first opened in 1884 — were then, and still remain, part of the Rogers School District.

The Lowell Historical Museum preserves the city's past inside the L. P. Davis House, built in 1881, and Lowell has two properties on the National Register of Historic Places: the Pinkston-Mays Store Building, built around 1902, and the Green Barn, built around 1910.

Lowell is the world headquarters of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, one of the largest trucking and logistics companies in the United States and a longtime Fortune 500 member; the company moved its headquarters to Lowell by the early 1970s.

With J.B. Hunt joined by firms such as Lufkin Trailer, which opened in Lowell in 1988, the city became a center of Arkansas's trucking industry, helped by its position near the geographic center of the United States.

Lowell's growth has been explosive: the census counted 1,225 residents in 1990, 5,013 in 2000, 7,327 in 2010 and 9,839 in 2020 — a 34 percent jump in the last decade alone.