Cache Township Clay County
* Girls are Colleen & Debbie Luttrell daughters of Colman & Erma Luttrell.
Knobel is a small town in the North East corner of Arkansas in Clay County. The earliest record of a settler in or near what was later to become Knobel is that of J.H Allen who settled on a piece of land two miles west and began farming it in 1866.
Ten Years later J.T Gilchrist came with his father, Richard, to Knobel where they operated a sawmill and after his father died in 1888 he put in a general merchandise store. He worked for the Iron Mountain for five years previous, acting as agent at Knobel in 1879 and operating a saloon and billiard hall.
Knobel really had its beginning in the early 1870's when the railroad was being laid. The town was named for the engineer of the project, Gus Knobel.
I will tell you more about the history of this small town and some of the people in it as we take a walk down memory lane. So Please enjoy and come back often as I will be adding more to the site.
