 Leslie A. Davis became consul of Harpoot in 1914 and left in 1917 upon the cessation of Ottoman Empire-United States relations; Davis stated that this mission was "one of the most remote and inaccessible in the world".It’s the scene of the romance “Skylark Farm” by Antonia Arslan about Armenian Genocide and it is also her own grandfather's birthplace.Two eyewitnesses wrote about reports of genocide in Harpoot.