When is National Arkansas Day?
Wednesday January 11thWe began honoring each state in the order they were born in the union, beginning with Hawaii and ending with Hawaii on Independence Day. We've chosen a small piece of each state's past, foods, and the people who make up the state. There's so much more to discover, but we can't help but celebrate our beautiful country even more.
When French and Spanish explorers arrived in the area, Arkansas teems with lakes, rivers, and rivers, Osage, Caddo, Quapaw tribes were populated by Osage, Caddo, Quapaw tribes. The Mississippi River is its eastern boundary. Its eastern boundary is the Mississippi River. Little Rock may be Arkansas' capital, but the state is also known for large rocks and a slew of minerals, as well as large rocks and a slew of rocks and minerals. The Quartz Crystal Capital of the World has the world's only diamond mine, and the Magnet Cove area contains 102 varieties of minerals.
Over half of the state is forested and more than 1 million acres in Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, earns the name "Natural State." But that's not all that contributes to the apt name..
Hot Springs National Park became America's first national park in what later became the National Park System... Officials in Arkansas, when Arkansas was still a territory, understood the hot springs' unique characteristics and demanded that the area be set aside and covered. "The hot springs and adjacent mountains were reserved for the future use of the United States," President Andrew Jackson wrote legislation on April 20, 1832, naming four sections of land that included the hot springs and adjacent mountains "not to be entered, found, or appropriated for any other use whatsoever."
