It all began when Cyrus G. McCrory came to Arkansas from Tennessee in 1860 and bought several hundred acres of "Swamp Land" property. The town of McCrory was plated, and Wade McCrory sold hundreds of plots to settlers. Comfortable homes were built. Stores and businesses sprang up along Edmonds Avenue, the main street of the newly laid out town. A post office was authorized. Woodruff County Court granted the petition on January 30, 1890, and the town of McCrory was born.