Cabins, cottages and second homes.
Hardy and Cherokee Village grew up as summer-resort country, and the housing shows it.
River and lake cabins: the facts
The Wahpeton Inn was built in 1912 by Memphis physician George Gillespie Buford with ten summer cottages; The Wahpeton resort sold its cottages individually in 1953.
L. L. Ward opened the Rio Vista resort in 1932, and summer camps near Hardy included Kia Kima (Boy Scouts, 1916), Miramichee (YWCA, 1916) and Camp Kiwani (Girl Scouts, 1920).
Cherokee Village began in 1954 as a 2,400-acre summer resort in the vein of the Wahpeton Inn, was formally opened in June 1955, and has seven lakes and two 18-hole golf courses.
In 1964 the Cherokee Village developer arranged a land swap with the Memphis Boy Scout Council for the Kia Kima camp property, and the community had grown to 13,500 acres by 1980.
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas lists environmental damage from a dense road network on steep terrain and many septic systems among Cherokee Village's drawbacks.
Cabins and cottages.
Illustrative photos of the kinds of homes and conditions found in this area.
Sources for the facts on this page
- encyclopediaofarkansas.net: hardy sharp county
- en.wikipedia.org: Hardy, Arkansas
- en.wikipedia.org: Spring River (Arkansas)
- ktlo.com
- kait8.com: spring river flooding reaches near historic level
- encyclopediaofarkansas.net: karst topography
- encyclopediaofarkansas.net: sharp county
- epa.gov: arkansas
- epa.gov: epa map radon zones
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