Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Marshall, AR

Marshall is a city in the Ozark Mountains of north-central Arkansas and the county seat and largest city of Searcy County.

Marshall began as Burrowville: in 1856 voters chose a new county-seat site on a bench of Devil's Backbone Mountain at Raccoon Springs, named it for planter and politician Napoleon Bonaparte Burrow, and the county bought eleven acres for the town in 1857 for five dollars.

Union forces burned Burrowville's courthouse and looted the town in January 1864, and after the Civil War county Unionists pushed through a name change honoring U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, approved on March 18, 1867.

During the Civil War, Searcy County was a center of the secret pro-Union Arkansas Peace Society, and seventy-seven captured members were marched from the Marshall courthouse to Little Rock in December 1861.

Marshall incorporated on June 18, 1884, and the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad's arrival in 1902 sparked a mining and timber boom that grew the town from 260 people in 1900 to more than 700 by 1905, though the railroad's later failure dragged the local economy down.

The Searcy County Courthouse in Marshall, built in 1889, is one of the oldest courthouses in Arkansas and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Marshall is a gateway to the Buffalo National River: Searcy County holds more than 23,000 acres of the national river's lands and over 31,000 acres of the Ozark National Forest, and proposals to dam the Buffalo were defeated before the river was protected in 1972.

Around 1950, Jack Treece brought cable television to Marshall in one of the first cable TV operations in Arkansas.

Marshall's Kenda Drive-In, which opened in 1966, is one of only three surviving drive-in movie theaters in Arkansas.

Since 2004, Marshall's students have been part of the Searcy County School District, formed by merging the Marshall, Leslie, and Witts Springs schools, with campuses in Marshall and Leslie.