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History. The original Fort Smith High School completed construction in fall 1897 and was described as one of the "Seven Wonders of Fort Smith" with its English castle-style, buff-brick and grey-stone building until a deadly tornado nearly destroyed the building three months later January 11, 1898. Also in Fort Smith, Howard High School (1888 ...
The Fort Chaffee crisis occurred during the Mariel boatlift in 1980 when over 19,000 Cuban refugees were detained at Fort Chaffee. They could not be released into the public because they were not United States citizens. After a promise of quick release many processing setbacks occurred and many refugees remained still detained at the center.
The term "Northwest Arkansas" is commonly used to refer to the rapidly growing cities of Benton and Washington counties in the geographic corner of the state. Northwest Arkansas, often abbreviated NWA, has become known as a cohesive region due to the efforts of the Northwest Arkansas Council, an association of community and business leaders formally organized in 1990 to promote regionalization ...
Fort Gibson. / 35.80389°N 95.25722°W / 35.80389; -95.25722. Fort Gibson is a historic military site next to the modern city of Fort Gibson, in Muskogee County Oklahoma. It guarded the American frontier in Indian Territory from 1824 to 1888. When it was constructed, the fort was farther west than any other military post in the United ...
Bentonville Arkansas Fort Smith Arkansas: April 30, 1978 8 Arkansas Bentonville Bentonville Arkansas Little Rock Arkansas: June 1, 1969 11 Arkansas Little Rock Memphis Tennessee Memphis Tennessee North: Sep. 14, 1980 2 Arkansas Little Rock Memphis Tennessee Monroe Louisiana: Aug. 18, 1985 1 Louisiana Baton Rouge Baton Rouge Louisiana
70000130 [1] Added to NRHP. September 4, 1970. The W.H.H. Clayton House, now the Clayton House Museum, is a historic house museum at 514 North 6th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a -story L-shaped wood-frame structure, with a projecting front clipped-gable section. It has elaborate Victorian trim, including detailed window surrounds ...
The Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (ARCOM) is a private medical school in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Founded in 2014 as a division of the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education, the school is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association. The school opened its doors to its inaugural class of 150 students in August 2017.
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age.