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Watson Chapel, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

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Watson Chapel is a neighborhood located at the fork of Highway 79 (Camden Road) and Highway 54 (Sulphur Springs Road) in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas. While today it is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of Pine Bluff, it was once a frontier town. It is named after a Methodist minister, Benjamin Watson, who settled in nearby Sulphur Springs in the 1870s. Watson later converted to Presbyterianism and founded a church and school which were named Watson's Chapel. On April 5, 1880 the Watson Chapel School District was formed, with the school still meeting in Rev. Watson’s church until a separate school building was erected in 1898.[1]

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  1. ^ "CAMP WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS CONFEDERATE CEMETERY, SULPHUR SPRINGS, JEFFERSON COUNTY". Arkansas Historic Preservation Program. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
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