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Hope, city, seat (1939) of Hempstead county, southwestern Arkansas, U.S., about 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Texarkana. It was founded in 1852 as a station on the Cairo and Fulton (now Union Pacific) Railroad and was named for the daughter of James Loughborough, a railroad land commissioner who laid out the town site. It developed as a shipping centre for timber and agricultural products, notably watermelons, beef cattle, cotton, eggs, and poultry. The economy is based on poultry processing, bakery goods, and the manufacture of steel joists, auto parts, audio equipment, and molded plastics. Hope is the birthplace (1946) ...(100 of 153 words)

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