Art Club The Art Club consists of Lake Hamilton High School students who love the arts and would like to improve their skills through creative visualization. It provides an opportunity for practicing artists to meet after school, collaborate on special projects with their peers, create bonds with the community through art, and work together to […]
William Jefferson Clinton is known as the 42nd president of the United States of America from 1993 to 2001. He sought to end racial discrimination, improve education, and strengthen environmental rules during his stint in The White House. But “Bill” Clinton will always be known to Arkansas natives as Hot Springs own native son. He […]
Lake Catherine Lake Catherine is a small 1,940-acre lake nestled in the Ouachita Mountains. It is one of the five popular Diamond Lakes located in West-Central Arkansas near the city of Hot Springs. It was created in 1924 with the construction of the Remmel Dam on the Ouachita River. The Remmel Dam was constructed by […]
The Garland County Historical Society through the Years The Garland County Historical Society is an organization that was founded to preserve and provides access to the local history of Garland County, Arkansas, to educate, as to encourage more interest to Hot Springs and Garland County, as a whole. It was established on April 19, 1960, […]
Establishment of the former Army-Navy Hospital The Army-Navy Hospital was an economic and social boon for the state of Arkansas when it was founded. It was the first hospital to have combined facilities for both U.S. Army and Navy patients. It was created due to the high demand for the use of the therapeutic mineral […]
Situated on the shoreline of Lake Hamilton is the beautiful Garvan Woodland Gardens. It is a beautiful 210-acre botanical garden that is also a department of the School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas that encompasses four and a half miles of the shoreline of the lake. It operates as a non-profit organization wherein […]
Lake Ouachita is the largest lake in Arkansas. It was created through the creation of the Blakely Mountain Dam in 1952 to provide hydroelectric power to the State of Arkansas. The word Ouachita comes from the French spelling of the Indian word “Washita” that means “big hunt” or “good hunting grounds”. It has over 40,000 […]
Al Capone was born in 1899 to poor Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, New York. He rose to infamy in 1920 during the height of Prohibition with his illegal business in bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling. He frequented the Hot Springs area during the prohibition era to strike deals with bootleggers during the city’s own gangster era […]
The Ouachita Mountains (referred to as The Ouachitas) are a mountain range located at West –Central Arkansas and Southeastern Oklahoma, which houses the Ouachita National Park. It is one of the six natural divisions of Arkansas and is characterized by its folded ridges and valleys formed by Paleozoic Rocks. It is generally considered as a […]
The Arlington Resort Hotel and Spa is not only a premier hotel located at Hot Springs, Arkansas but also a part of the city’s history. Its Spanish-Colonial Revival style architecture, along with its enormous stature and placement at the city’s nucleus has made it a key historical landmark at Hot Springs. The Arlington Hotel you […]