Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas
Sam Newton Hickey and his son Glenn N. Hickey opened a two story buff brick
hardware store in Mt. Ida in 1944. The store is located on the courthouse square
and was called "Hickey's Hardware and Department Store; its motto was "right on
the corner, right on the price." Glenn Hickey also served as mayor of Mt. Ida
and deacon of the First Baptists Church.
First Baptist Church, Mt Ida 1998
Mt Ida United Methodist Church
Photo courtesy of Bill Ray June 2001.
Photo credits: Olwyn , 1998
"I've lived in big cities all my life, and now I see cows and horses and they're not on milk cartons. It's like I've died and gone to Mayberry."
REMEMBERING ARKANSAS by Tom W.
Dillard
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette 2 December 2007
When I was growing up, it was the custom to designate the issuing county on auto
license plates. For example, I lived in tiny Montgomery County west of Hot
Springs in the Ouachita Mountains, and licenses issued in that county were
preceded by the number 74, meaning it was the next to last county by population.
Number 75 was reserved for the only county smaller than my own - Perry. As a
child it never made sense to me that the smallest county in the state sat snugly
on the western border of the largest county - Pulaski.