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The Arkansas General Assembly established the Arkansas History Commission through the Act of 1905 signed by Governor Jeff Davis on April 27. [2] Aligned with Department of Parks and Tourism since 1971, it was transferred to the Department of Arkansas Heritage on July 1, 2016, and renamed Arkansas State Archives.
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program operates the site with a historic site manager, offering comprehensive interpretive themes between 1829 and 1863 tied to the historic site. [26] Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission (ANHC) was created by the Arkansas General Assembly in 1969 and works to conserve Arkansas's natural landscape by ...
The association was founded at the Marion Hotel in Little Rock on February 22, 1941, by prominent Arkansas citizens and scholars. Its mission upon establishment was “to promote interest in the history of Arkansas, to locate, collect, and preserve historical material, and to publish scarce and important source material, and also historical articles, news, and notes”.
In the late 1970s, a well-meaning homeowner in a small Oklahoma town tacked a plaque at his front door declaring his property’s unimportant significance. The brass sign read, "On This Site in ...
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, is a town. The military's Fort Gibson was a frontier army post, now a historic site and National Landmark, observing 200 years.
The following are tallies of current listings in Arkansas on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program (AHPP) nominates properties for inclusion in the ARHP; completing a nomination often started by the property owner or a local community and submitting it to an eleven-member selection board who reviews the submittals and makes a recommendation on the property's inclusion.
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. [3] 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. [4]