Baxter is an unincorporated community in Drew County, Arkansas, United States. It is located on Arkansas Highway 35 west of Dermott, near where the highway crosses Bayou Bartholomew. Located from the bayou mouth, it traditionally marked the head of navigation on the bayou.
The settlement started as a former plantation named Bartholomew and was renamed Baxter during the Brooks–Baxter War. In 1880, the population was approximately 600 whites and 2000 blacks.
The Baxter Vidette, an African-American newspaper, began publishing in Baxter in 1902.
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