Westrock - Revision history

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Phil at 16:02, 25 August 2008

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Phil at 15:51, 25 August 2008

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Phil at 18:03, 24 August 2008

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Phil at 17:58, 24 August 2008

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Phil: New page: '''Westrock''' is a neighborhood near east edge of Alsopp Park that underwent $1.4 million in urban renewal activity in the early 1960s. ==References== ==External links==

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New page: '''Westrock''' is a neighborhood near east edge of Alsopp Park that underwent $1.4 million in urban renewal activity in the early 1960s. ==References== ==External links==

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'''Westrock''' is a neighborhood near east edge of [[Alsopp Park]] that underwent $1.4 million in urban renewal activity in the early 1960s.

==References==

==External links==

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 '''Westrock''' (or "West Rock") was a black neighborhood just east of [[Alsopp Park]], near where Cantrell Road intersects with Rebsamen Park Road today.
-The neighborhood underwent $1.4 million in controversial urban renewal (then called "slum clearance") activity under the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] between 1959 and 1964. In all, 53.9 acres of land and one hundred structures, many tar paper shacks, were bulldozed in the revitalization effort. Eighty-three families were moved elsewhere. No black families moved back in because of an escalation in land values. Some called it "Negro removal" at the time. Private developers constructed a thirty-eight lot subdivision in the area beginning in 1961, and eliminated a treacherous curve on Cantrell Road. The Cedar Hill Corporation, led by [[J. Wythe Walker]], also built a new luxury apartment building called Westriver]] as part of the redevelopment effort.
+The neighborhood underwent $1.4 million in controversial urban renewal (then called "slum clearance") activity under the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] between 1959 and 1964. In all, 53.9 acres of land and one hundred structures, many tar paper shacks, were bulldozed in the revitalization effort. Eighty-three families were moved elsewhere. No black families moved back in because of an escalation in land values. Some called it "Negro removal" at the time. Private developers constructed a thirty-eight lot subdivision in the area beginning in 1961, and eliminated a treacherous curve on Cantrell Road. The Cedar Hill Corporation, led by [[J. Wythe Walker]], also built a new luxury apartment building called [[Westriver]] as part of the redevelopment effort.
 ==References==

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-'''Westrock''' is a neighborhood near east edge of [[Alsopp Park]].
+'''Westrock''' (or "West Rock") was a black neighborhood just east of [[Alsopp Park]], near where Cantrell Road intersects with Rebsamen Park Road today.
-The neighborhood underwent $1.4 million in urban renewal activity under the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] around 1960. In all, 53.9 acres of land and structures was bulldozed in the revitalization effort. Private developers constructed a thirty-eight lot subdivision in the area beginning in 1961, and eliminated a treacherous curve on Cantrell Road. The Cedar Hill Corporation, led by [[J. Wythe Walker]], also built a new luxury apartment building called Westriver]] as part of the redevelopment effort.
+The neighborhood underwent $1.4 million in controversial urban renewal (then called "slum clearance") activity under the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] between 1959 and 1964. In all, 53.9 acres of land and one hundred structures, many tar paper shacks, were bulldozed in the revitalization effort. Eighty-three families were moved elsewhere. No black families moved back in because of an escalation in land values. Some called it "Negro removal" at the time. Private developers constructed a thirty-eight lot subdivision in the area beginning in 1961, and eliminated a treacherous curve on Cantrell Road. The Cedar Hill Corporation, led by [[J. Wythe Walker]], also built a new luxury apartment building called Westriver]] as part of the redevelopment effort.
 ==References==
 *Bill Lewis, "Downtown Unlimited Honors Strauss, Reviews Progress," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' January 23, 1964.
 *Matilda Tuohey, "Little Rock Has Massive Urban Renewal Program," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' February 17, 1963.
 ==External links==

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 '''Westrock''' is a neighborhood near east edge of [[Alsopp Park]].
-The neighborhood underwent $1.4 million in urban renewal activity under the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] around 1960. In all, 53.9 acres of land and structures was bulldozed in the revitalization effort. Private developers constructed a thirty-eight lot subdivision in the area beginning in 1961, and eliminated a treacherous curve on Cantrell Road.
+The neighborhood underwent $1.4 million in urban renewal activity under the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] around 1960. In all, 53.9 acres of land and structures was bulldozed in the revitalization effort. Private developers constructed a thirty-eight lot subdivision in the area beginning in 1961, and eliminated a treacherous curve on Cantrell Road. The Cedar Hill Corporation, led by [[J. Wythe Walker]], also built a new luxury apartment building called Westriver]] as part of the redevelopment effort.
 ==References==
 *Matilda Tuohey, "Little Rock Has Massive Urban Renewal Program," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' February 17, 1963.
 ==External links==

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-'''Westrock''' is a neighborhood near east edge of [[Alsopp Park]] that underwent $1.4 million in urban renewal activity under the [[Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project]] in the early 1960s.
+'''Westrock''' is a neighborhood near east edge of [[Alsopp Park]].
 ==References==
 ==External links==