The Mount Salem Church and school held its annual homecoming on September 20. The church and school are on the register of historic sites for the state and represents the history and character of the earliest settlers of the mountains of Arkansas. The site is now isolated and sparsely settled, nearly completely surrounded by national forest today but, during the mid-1800’s, it was a thriving community of farmers who subsisted off the rocky soils by raising cotton, corn, and various fruits.