 For Little Rock Public Radio, this is Dan Boyce with Naming Arkansas. Sometimes, as they created new towns, railroads also led to the demise of existing places. When the Texas and St. Louis Railway was laid through Ouachita County, it went between the two towns of Richland and Seminary. Both towns withered away as their merchants and residents uprooted themselves and moved to the railway and the station in the middle, named Stevens, for a railroad surveyor.