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The Arkansas Indian Culture Center is located in Cherokee Village (pop. 4,648). Its hands-on exhibits trace the culture of Arkansas Indians from prehistoric times to the 1830s.

first appeared: 3/10/2002

Pugh’s Mill or The Old Mill in North Little Rock is a historic re-creation of an 1880’s water-powered gristmill. It was seen in the opening scenes of the movie Gone With the Wind.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

The Arkansaurus was a bird-like, meat-eating dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous period. Its fossilized remains were discovered on an Arkansas farm in 1972.

first appeared: 2/24/2002

Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton (pop. 6,550) was named for a young French girl who allegedly disguised herself as a boy and secretly accompanied her sweetheart, an early explorer, to this area of the New World.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

Each October, the community of Lepanto (pop. 2,133) hosts a Terrapin Derby. Hundreds of turtles race their fastest, enticed by watermelon slices placed at the finish line.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

In 1820, the Rev. Cephas Washburn established Dwight Mission, the Arkansas territory’s first school, in Russellville (pop. 23,682).

first appeared: 2/3/2002

Armorel (pop. 444) got its name from businessman and farmer R.E. Lee Wilson, who owned thousands of acres of land there in the early 1900s. He used “Ar” from Arkansas, “Mo” from Missouri, and his initials R.E.L.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

The Arkansas River is the third-longest in the nation. With headwaters in Colorado, it flows across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas before joining the Mississippi River.

first appeared: 1/20/2002

The Arkansas flag features four blue stars representing the Confederacy and the three countries that have governed the state: France, Spain, and the United States. The 25 white stars indicate Arkansas was the 25th state, while the diamond honors its famous diamond mine.

first appeared: 1/13/2002

An 1826 tavern built by settler Jesse Hinderliter is Little Rock’s oldest building. It’s part of the Arkansas Territorial Restoration, a one-block area in which some of the city’s oldest buildings serve as a walk-through museum.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources near Smackover (pop. 2,005) collects, interprets, and exhibits examples of Arkansas’ natural history, as well as social history accompanying the 1920s oil boom.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

The weekly newspaper in De Queen (pop. 5,765) is called De Queen Bee.

first appeared: 12/23/2001

The 65,000-acre Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge near Crossett (pop. 6,097) has the world’s largest green-tree reservoir—where standing timber is flooded in winter to re-create habitat common along the lower Mississippi in the 1800s.

first appeared: 12/16/2001

One of the best-preserved stagecoach stations on the Butterfield Overland mail route is the Potts home in Pottsville (pop. 1,271). A museum on the estate displays hats and clothing collections from 1870 to modern times.

first appeared: 12/9/2001

Guns of the famous—and infamous—such as Billy the Kid, Annie Oakley, Jesse James, Pancho Villa, Buffalo Bill, and Wild Bill Hickok—are featured at the Saunders Memorial Museum in Berryville (pop. 4,433).

first appeared: 12/2/2001

Magnet Cove in Hot Spring County, named for iron deposits that make compasses go haywire, has some of the richest mineral deposits in the world.

first appeared: 11/25/2001

Hector (pop. 506) was named by President Grover Cleveland—at the request of the postal service—for his favorite bulldog.

first appeared: 11/18/2001

Oklahoma humorist and cowboy Will Rogers married Arkansas native Betty Blake in Rogers (pop. 38,829) on Nov. 25, 1906.

first appeared: 11/11/2001

At approximately 375 miles long, Bayou Bartholomew, starting near Pine Bluff, is reportedly the longest bayou in the world.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

Frances Octavia Smith grew up in Osceola (pop. 8,875) and became known as the leading lady of 1950s Westerns—Dale Evans.

first appeared: 10/28/2001

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