Little Rock Air Force Base

The Little Rock Air Force Base is located on the previous site of the Arkansas Ordnance Plant. The air base was established in 1955 on six thousand acres of land. The effort to bring the base to Jacksonville was spearheaded by Everett Tucker of the Greater Little Rock Chamber of Commerce and Raymond Rebsamen of the Pulaski County Citizens Council. A half million dollar fundraising effort to purchase land for the air base was headed by Arthur Phillips, president of the M. M. Cohn Company.