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The founder and publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines, John H. Johnson, was born in 1918 in Arkansas City (pop. 589), where the John H. Johnson Cultural and Educational Museum was dedicated in May 2005.

first appeared: 7/2/2006

The Fort Smith Regional Airport received America's Best Restroom Award in 2005 from the Cintas Corp., an Ohio company that provides restroom hygiene products and services. The praiseworthy potties feature aesthetic and practical niceties such as flower arrangements and touch-less fixtures.

first appeared: 6/25/2006

On June 17, 1862, along the White River, Confederates fired a cannonball that hit the steam drum on the Union gunboat Mound City at St. Charles (pop. 261), scalding most of the crew of 175 men. It has been called the single most destructive shot of the Civil War.

first appeared: 6/4/2006

With 90,000 square feet of shops, warehouses and showrooms, Antique Warehouse in Botkinburg is one of the South's largest antique outlets. The warehouse also may be the world's largest antique stained-glass dealer with more than 5,000 windows and doors in inventory at any time.

first appeared: 5/21/2006

A spectacular bird's-eye view of the Ouachita National Forest can be seen from the Rich Mountain Fire Tower near Mena (pop. 5,637). The steel tower, erected in 1952, replaced a wooden one at the site.

first appeared: 5/14/2006

Architect Edward Durell Stone, born in 1902 in Fayetteville (pop. 58,047), designed the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

first appeared: 4/23/2006

At 6,700 acres, Lake Conway in Faulkner County is the nation’s largest manmade lake built by a state game and fish agency. Construction began in 1948 on the lake, which is stocked with bass, bream, catfish and crappie.

first appeared: 4/9/2006

Designated a national scenic byway last September, Talimena Scenic Drive winds more than 50 miles over mountaintops in the Ouachita National Forest from Talihina, Okla. (pop. 1,211), to Mena (pop. 5,637). The road peaks on Rich Mountain in Arkansas.

first appeared: 3/26/2006

Stuttgart (pop. 9,745), home of the annual World Championship Duck Calling Contest that attracts thousands of people, makes no secret that duck hunting is big business. The town bills itself as the Rice and Duck Capital of the World, the Daily Leader newspaper features a duck on its masthead and the local radio station’s call letters are KWAK.

first appeared: 3/12/2006

Officially nicknamed "The Natural State" in 1995, Arkansas first was known as the "Bear State" in the 1850s. Another nickname was the "Bowie State," referring to the popular Bowie knife used for hunting and created by a blacksmith in Washington, Ark. Arkansas also has been called the "Wonder State" and the "Land of Opportunity."

first appeared: 2/26/2006

Six 10-foot-tall solid bronze doors on the state Capitol in Little Rock were purchased in 1910 from Tiffany’s of New York for $10,000 and today are valued at $250,000. The building was modeled after the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

first appeared: 2/12/2006

Built as a bomb shelter in the 1980s, Beckham Creek Cave Haven today is a five-bedroom bed and breakfast inside a cave near Parthenon. Guest rooms have natural living cave walls and ceilings, full baths, and sometimes bats.

first appeared: 1/29/2006

Dr. Joycelyn Elders, appointed U.S. surgeon general in 1993, was the first African-American woman to hold the post. She was born in 1933 in Schaal and also was the first African-American director of the Arkansas Department of Health.

first appeared: 1/15/2006

MISS ARKANSAS 2006—Eudora Mosby is very involved in her church and has spent time in Peru performing mission work. The Hazen (pop. 1,637) native is a University of Central Arkansas graduate.

first appeared: 1/8/2006

Completed in 1914, the 23-mile Dollarway Road at Pine Bluff (pop. 55,085) was among the nation’s first rural concrete highways. The name came from the $1-per-linear foot it cost to pave the road.

first appeared: 1/1/2006

Pedestal Rocks Scenic Area in the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, in northwestern Arkansas, got its name from the eroded limestone columns that resemble huge pedestals along the cave-riddled bluffs. The area has two hiking trails.

first appeared: 12/18/2005

Founded in 1879 as a health resort in the Ozark Mountains, Eureka Springs (pop. 2,278) is known for its Victorian-era architecture, miles of rock retaining walls, numerous mineral springs and an entire downtown listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

first appeared: 12/4/2005

The leopard darter, a 3-inch-long dark-spotted fish, is a rare species found in Ouachita Mountain streams, including the Cossatot, Mountain Fork and Robinson Fork rivers in Arkansas and the Glover, Little and Mountain Fork rivers in Oklahoma.

first appeared: 11/20/2005

Frog Fantasies Museum in Eureka Springs (pop. 2,278) is believed to have the world’s largest collection of frogs, with 6,000 made from ceramic, porcelain, and jade, and decorating potholders, puppets, pipes and anything else that leaps to mind.

first appeared: 11/6/2005

From silkworms to water buffalo, Heifer International, headquartered in Little Rock, provides income- and food-producing animals and training to impoverished people around the world. The recipients agree to donate the offspring of the gift animals to others in need.

first appeared: 10/23/2005

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