Monte Ne
Monte Ne is an area in the Ozark mountains of the White River valley east of Rogers, on the edge of Beaver Lake, in the US state of Arkansas. From 1901 until the mid-1930s the area was a health resort and ambitious planned community. It was owned and operated by William Hope Harvey, a financial theorist and one-time U.S. Presidential nominee. Monte Ne introduced the first indoor swimming pool in Arkansas, and was also the site of the only presidential convention ever held in the state.
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Monte Ne is an area in the Ozark mountains of the White River valley east of Rogers, on the edge of Beaver Lake, in the US state of Arkansas. From 1901 until the mid-1930s the area was a health resort and ambitious planned community. It was owned and operated by William Hope Harvey, a financial theorist and one-time U.S. Presidential nominee. Monte Ne introduced the first indoor swimming pool in Arkansas, and was also the site of the only presidential convention ever held in the state. The Monte Ne resort was not a financial success, due in part to Harvey’s failure to adequately manage the resort’s funds. All ventures associated with Harvey’s original Monte Ne concept either were never completed or experienced bankruptcy, and shortly after his death in 1936, the property was sold off in lots. The remainder of the resort and town was almost completely submerged after Beaver Lake was created in 1964. All that remains today are foundations and one severely vandalized structure. The area that would become Monte Ne was known to have had two establishments often considered essential to a pioneer settlement, a grist mill and a distillery. In 1875, the post office in the area changed its name from Mountain Springs to Pettigrew’s Mill. It would later be owned by James Wyeth and Amelia Crowder Blake, the parents of Betty Blake, who is often referred to as the ‘Leading Lady’ of Rogers. The area’s name was later changed to Silver Springs. In 1900 he lived in Arkansas and claimed that he preferred the state because it had no large cities or extremely wealthy people.
The house burned down a few months after they took up residence, and all of the family’s possessions, including Harvey’s large library, were lost. Harvey carried no insurance on the house, and after its destruction his wife Anna went back to Chicago, only returning to Arkansas a few times for brief visits for brief times. Although Harvey was financially successful at silver mining in Colorado, Monte Ne seems to have been funded mostly by the sales of Harvey’s writings which dealt with the subject of free silver. Harvey’s most popular pamphlet, entitled Coin’s Financial School, was published in 1893. Sales were buoyed by Harvey’s involvement in the 1896 presidential campaign of William Jennings Bryan, and it sold two million copies. Though Bryan lost his bid for President, Harvey had become so important to the campaign that he was made chairman of the Democratic Ways & Means Committee to collect money for the 1900 campaign. He petitioned the Post Office Department to change the name of the office to Vinola, in honor of a well-known vineyard that belonged to his neighbor Carl A. Starek. The letter was written in longhand, and the o and l were spaced too close together. As a result, the clerk misread the name as “Vinda”, which is how it was recorded. It is unknown when the distillery was built. The distillery’s output each day was given as 30 gallons by the Federal whiskey gauger.
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