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Little Rock, Conway, Searcy, Benton, Heber Springs
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Hot Springs, Pine Bluff, Texarkana, Arkadelphia
The 1951 baseball season arrived in Little Rock with little cause for...
Even though The Goonies didn’t come out in October, it always seems to...
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June 21, 2017
Tim Reilly
Old State House photo is featured in our story June in Arkansas History. The legislature worked in what’s now known as the Old State House, construction of which began in 1833, though the building was still incomplete when the state joined the Union.

Photo from the Old State House Museum’s Virtual Tour, go on it here.
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Little Rock, Conway, Searcy, Benton, Heber Springs
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[…] Brownlee was a Scottish stonemason who came to Little Rock to help build the State House (the Old Statehouse Museum). He built this particular house for his brother and sister-in-law (which no doubt qualified him as […]