Higginson, Arkansas

Higginson, in White County, is another town the Cairo and Fulton Railroad drew into existence. Like many stops on the line, it is said to have been named for a man named Higginson connected with the railroad. A post office opened at the depot in the eighteen seventies, and the little town filled in around it: two hotels, two grocery stores, a drugstore, a cafe, and a veneering mill.

The Rock Island Railroad later linked Higginson between Searcy and Des Arc. The village incorporated in the early nineteen hundreds. Local accounts tell of a fire that swept through downtown and took much of the business district.

The town rebuilt on a smaller scale and has stayed that way.