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Settled by Francois Francure in 1789, Georgetown (pop. 126) lays claim to being the state’s oldest town.

first appeared: 9/21/2003

A gusher didn’t inspire the naming of Oil Trough (pop. 218), but rather a successful bear hunt in 1811. Hunters fashioned troughs from trees to store the valuable bear oil until shipment and abandoned troughs became a landmark for travelers.

first appeared: 9/14/2003

All seven floors are ground level at the 1905 Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs (pop. 2,278), which is built into a mountain.

first appeared: 9/7/2003

Jim Kelley, a slave, established New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in 1860 in Lake Village (pop. 2,823), the state’s first African-American church.

first appeared: 8/31/2003

Founded in 1834, University of the Ozarks at Clarksville (pop. 7,719) was the first university in the Arkansas and Oklahoma territories.

first appeared: 8/24/2003

German immigrants settled and named Stuttgart (pop. 9,745) in 1878 after their homeland.

first appeared: 8/17/2003

The elegant 21-room Queen Anne Mansion in Eureka Springs (pop. 2,278) spent nearly 100 years in Carthage, Mo. (pop. 12,668). The 1891 three-story home was dismantled, trucked through the Ozark Mountains and reassembled.

first appeared: 8/10/2003

Headquartered in Rogers (pop. 38,829) since 1958, Daisy Outdoor Products is the world’s oldest and largest producer of air guns, BB guns, pellet rifles, and CO2 pistols.

first appeared: 8/3/2003

Ranger Boats, the nation’s largest manufacturer of fiberglass bass boats, is headquartered in Flippin (pop. 1,357) near the Buffalo National River, White River, and Bull Shoals Lake.

first appeared: 7/27/2003

Yell County served as the setting for the 1969 movie True Grit, based on the novel by Charles Portis, a native of El Dorado (pop. 21,530).

first appeared: 7/20/2003

McRae (pop. 661) is home to Randall’s High-Diving Racers, a traveling pig show starring hogs that dive into swimming pools and also race.

first appeared: 7/13/2003

In 1909, football Coach Hugo Bezdek at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (pop. 58,047) described his team as playing “like a band of wild razorback hogs.” The name stuck and the Cardinals became Razorbacks.

first appeared: 7/6/2003

The state is first in the production of bromine, mined from subterranean saltwater and used in fire retardant and water-treatment chemicals.

first appeared: 6/29/2003

Opened in 1901, the Gilbert (pop. 33) General Store still serves the community and canoeists on the Buffalo River.

first appeared: 6/22/2003

The newest state park, Mount Magazine near Paris (pop. 3,707), is aflutter with 90 butterfly species. The park is on the state’s highest mountain—at 2,753 feet—and opened in May 2002.

first appeared: 6/15/2003

Singer Glen Campbell, a native of Delight (pop. 311), topped both country and pop charts in 1974 with Rhinestone Cowboy.

first appeared: 6/8/2003

The movie, A Painted House, was filmed in Lepanto (pop. 2,133) in 2002 and is based on novelist John Grisham’s experiences growing up in nearby Black Oak (pop. 286).

first appeared: 6/1/2003

John Grisham, master of the legal thriller, was born in 1955 in Jonesboro (pop. 55,515). His 1991 novel, The Firm, spent 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.

first appeared: 5/25/2003

Founded in 1872, Lyon College in Batesville (pop. 9,445) is the state’s oldest private college.

first appeared: 5/18/2003

Gourmet shiitake mushrooms are grown on white oak logs by the Shirley Community Development Corp. in Shirley (pop. 337).

first appeared: 5/11/2003

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