pop quiz:
what do you know about smackover? where is it? is, or was, this an important rail junction? what lines served it in the ‘old days’? (1930-'60)… whither the name?
Cabby, Don’t know about smackover, but when the RF&P boys began running north on old B&O, they started calling Baltimore Terminal “the Brick Wall.” skeets
Smackover is in extreme southern Arkansas. I don’t know much more than that, though.
f-y-i: according to the ark. bd. of tourism, ‘smackover’ might have got its name from the wildcat rigs that spouted oil ‘smackover’ the town, but it’s unlikely…
it might have got its anme from the french ‘chemin couvert’, a ‘covered way’ thru the forested area out-of-town… or maybe from the french ‘chemin sumac’, ‘covered with sumac’…
my grand-dad spent 30+ years drilling for humble oil in e. tex/la, 1920-50, and oil shooting ‘smackover’ a town sounds just fine to me…