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I THINK I know the answer to this.
It was a few miles roughly southeast of Newark Arkansas.
If you go to Mapquest, and kind of "zoom in" on Newark (in Independence County), you will see a Paraquett Road going roughly southeast from Newark(railroad tracks and a road run side by side for a few miles, so the map can be a bit confusing). After perhaps 6 miles, Paraquett Road crosses a roughly north/south road named Duck Puddle Road.
When I was a little boy (in the 1950s), what was referred to as Paraquett (and I always heard that pronounced as "Parakeet" -- not sure what the spelling was back then) was a group of houses along Duck Puddle Road between Paraquett Road and Point Ferry Road.
There was a white wooden school building at the northwest corner of the intersection of Point Ferry Road and Duck Puddle Road during all or most of the 1950s (I remember the building as being two floors, but my memory is pretty fuzzy). My recollection is that perhaps only a few lower grades were taught there until perhaps 1951 or 1952. I started first grade in 1950 at Newark. I believe the Paraquett school closed and 2 or 3 students from there joined my class in Newark school when we were in perhaps the 2nd or 3rd grade (the districts had been merged some time prior to that). I MAY have a photo of the Paraquett school building in a old Newark School yearbook (for a year when the Paraquett school was operated as part of the Newark school district).
A bridge has been built near the site of the old Point Ferry (probably in the early 1970s) and the road was improved at that time. The current Point Ferry Road may be displaced by a few hundred feet from the location of that road when the Paraquett or Parakeet community existed.
I hope this helps.
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