Shiloh
Farms Bakery
Location Map
Historical
Notes
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The Shiloh Farms Bakery was originally established by the Shiloh
Community in upstate New York in the 1940's. We have been making the
finest all-natural sprouted breads and baked goods for over fifty
years.
Our location here in the center of historic Sulphur Springs,
Arkansas dates from 1968. At that time we moved lock, stock, and barrel
to this peaceful 117 acre site amid the pastoral beauty of the Ozarks in
Northwest Arkansas. Since then the Bakery has focused on natural, certified
organic and chemical-free foods - natural sweeteners and oils, NO
preservatives, NO
synthetics. 
The adjacent City Park, once part of
the original property, contains four natural springs - yellow, white
and black sulphur, plus a rare lithium spring. Attraction to the healing
properties of these waters, plus the lure of local area caves, led to the
town site's layout in 1885 and its designation as the end-of-the-line terminal
for the Kansas City Southern Railroad. With the first train arriving in 1891,
the railroad soon developed more than a dozen local resort hotels, including
the Livingston and Kihlberg which opened in 1909 and later sustained two
major
fires.
Prior to Shiloh, the original
site and hotels were occupied successively by the John Brown Military Academy
from 1924 to 1951, then by the Wycliff Bible Translators and Missionary Trainers.
Shiloh expanded the complex with the additions of our commercial bakery,
swimming pool, large educational-multi-purpose building, a number of separate
individual family living quarters, and various other
improvements.
Our Shiloh complex retains three nostalgic, restored
turn-of-the-century buildings - the 30 room Livingston and the 100 room
(originally) grand Kihlberg resort hotel, plus the 19 room Shiloh
House Parsonage, which is recorded in the National Registry of historic
landmarks. Below are shown several external and interior views of Shiloh
House.
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Last Updated on 5/8/03
By Anna Lee Janisch
Email: shilohf@nwark.com