A short history of Fakes Chapel can be found in "Fakes Chapel (1885-1975)" by Agnes Ridgeway Holder in Rivers and Roads and Points in Between, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Augusta: Woodruff County Historical Society, Winter 1976), p. 19:

On December 3, 1885, Dr. G. B. Fakes bought from the State of Arkansas Section 10, and from this land, Mrs. G. B. Fakes, wife of Dr. Fakes, gave one acre to the people to build a Methodist church and cemetery.

The first church was a little log building which served the people until 1904. It was also used for a school. When it was replaced with another, larger building, it too was used for church and school until 1946, when it was consolidated with the McCrory district...

Not all the land was owned by the Fakes. Mr. Will Jelks owned one section to the south of the Fakes, and the Jelks sisters, Florence and Lavenia, to the southwest...

Long before this was Fakes Chapel, it was called Pull-Tight. It is said that two women were fighting and pulling hair and someone called out, "Pull tighter!" And from then on it was called Pull-Tight, and some people still call it that...

Fakes Chapel was noted for its big dinners. The people would get together on Cache River at a place called the high banks. They would spread their table-cloths on the ground and put their food on it. People came from miles around when there was a dinner on the ground at Fakes Chapel...

A history of the Fakes family is outlined in the article, "Dr. and Mrs. Gideon Bransford Fakes," by Mrs. Turner Fakes, Arkansas Gazette, October 5, 1941, reprinted in Rivers and Roads and Points in Between, Vol. III, No. 4 (Fall, 1975), pp. 2-5.

Another history of Fakes Chapel can be found in Rivers and Roads and Points in Between, Vol. IX, No. 3 (Summer 1981), "Memories of Fakes Chapel Community" by Edna Rooks Raymond, p. 24. A religious community existed there that included a church, a school, several homes, and its own cemetery (not to be confused with Fakes Cemetery which is closer to McCrory on Highway 17):

Fakes Chapel probably had no settlers until after the Civil War. The record shows that Dr. G. B. Fakes and his wife, Eleanor Edmunds Fakes, donated ground for the first church-school and cemetery. For several years a single log building served as both school and church. In time a larger school building and a log church were constructed. The Methodists and the Baptists used the same building, the Baptist holding services in the morning and the Methodists in the afternoon. In about 1936 additional land to the west was purchased by the Methodists who build a church of squared logs. W. E. Jelks gave the logs, and the men of the church put them up. Everyone helped...

It was in 1976 that the exterior of the building was finished with brick veneer and the interior modernized and air conditioned

A Mr. Postal McCurdy, who taught school in Fakes Chapel, wrote the "well-known" folk song Boll Weevil Blues there in 1923.