Established initially as Alta Villa by Italian immigrants in 1915,Whitworth, Katherine
"It takes a village: The hillside paradise of Arkansas's other Italians"
''Arkansas Life''. November 2011, p. 15. Little Italy is an unincorporated community in

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and Perry counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The culturally rich and historically significant hamlet is located in high terrain along

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amidst the northeastern foothills of the Ouachita MountainsDorer, Chris
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Retrieved March 14, 2018. bestriding Wye Mountain and Kryer Mountain. As part of a multi-decade heritage preservation effort, its residents are currently seeking status as an

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."Becoming a Township"''Little Italy''
Retrieved March 14, 2018.

References

* Barnes, Kenneth C. ''Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960.'' Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2016. * Cia, M.B. "Notes on Little Italy." ''Pulaski County Historical Review'' 12 (December 1964): 53–55. * Dorer, Chris. “A Bootlegger’s Oasis: Central Arkansas’s Craving for Little Italy’s Prohibition-Era Concoctions.” ''Pulaski County Historical Review'' 65 (Spring 2017): 3–10. * ———. ''Images of America: Little Italy, Arkansas''. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2015. * Dorer, Christopher A. ''Boy the Stories I Could Tell: A Narrative History of the Italians of Little Italy, Arkansas''. Winfield, KS: Central Plains Book Manufacturing Co., 2002. * ———. “Little Italy: A Historical and Sociological Survey.” ''Pulaski County Historical Review'' 51 (Summer 2003): 43–54. * Goldsmith, Adolph O. "Wine From Little Italy's Grapes: Italians of This Unusual Colony Near Little Rock Carry on Traditions of Native Land." Historical Document Archive. Little Italy, Arkansas Historical Society, Little Italy, Arkansas. Facsimile of an apparent newspaper article printed circa 1939, missing name of newspaper and publication date. * Halliburton, Arthur. “Little Italy is Still Ethnically Closely-Knit; But Town Has Lost Old World Flavor since 1915.” ''Arkansas Democrat.'' November 26, 1972, p. 3A. * "Little Italy Celebrates." ''Arkansas Gazette.'' August 9, 1931, p. 9B–10B. * Smith, Sybil. "Notes on the Italian settlers of Pulaski County" ''Pulaski County Historical Review'' 38 (Fall 1990): 51–57. * Tebbetts, Diane Ott. "Transmission of Folklife Patterns in Two Rural Arkansas Ethnic Groups: The Germans and Italians in Perry County." PhD diss., Indiana University, 1987. * Womack, Patsy. ''Living the Times: A Bicentennial History of Perry County''. N.p.: 1976. * Woods, James M. ''Mission and Memory: A History of the Catholic Church in Arkansas''. Little Rock: August House, 1993.

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* Italian-American culture in Arkansas Italian diaspora in North America Populated places established in 1915 Unincorporated communities in Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Perry County, Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Pulaski County, Arkansas {{PerryCountyAR-geo-stub

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Other historically Italian settlements in Arkansas

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