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McCrory is a city in Woodruff County in northeast Arkansas that bills itself as 'The Heart of Woodruff County.'

The settlement was first known as Jennie's Colony, a name local tradition traces to a traveler who joked about the many children of an early settler named Jennie.

The town takes its name from the McCrory family: Cyrus McCrory bought 400 acres here in 1862, and his son Wade later donated land to bring the railroad through.

The first train steamed into McCrory in 1887 on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway's Memphis-to-Little Rock route, and the town was formally incorporated in 1890.

McCrory even had its own short-line railroad, the McCrory and Beedeville Southern, organized in 1910, but it went bankrupt by 1914 after building only about eleven and a half miles of track.

The 2020 census counted 1,583 people in McCrory, living in 682 households, down from a peak of 1,971 in 1990.

Three McCrory sites are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the McCrory Commercial Historic District, the McCrory Waterworks, and the Dr. John William Morris Clinic.

For 27 years, a 770,000-square-foot American Greetings plant was the town's industrial anchor, and its closure in 2003 dealt McCrory a heavy economic blow.

Today McCrory's life revolves around farming and the McCrory School District, whose schools include McCrory High School.

McCrory covers about 2.4 square miles along U.S. Highway 64 in eastern Woodruff County, a few miles east of the Cache River crossing at Patterson and west of Augusta, the county seat.