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List of
Counties
List of Towns
Points of
Interest
Capital: Little Rock
Largest city: Little Rock
Highest point: Mount Magazine
Lowest point: Ouachita River
Admission to Union: June 15, 1836 (25th)
Amtrak's Texas Eagle makes several stops in Arkansas daily on its run from Chicago to San Antonio and Los Angeles.
Wal-Mart, is headquartered in Bentonville
Visit Altus in Arkansas's wine country
Six geographic regions: Ouachitas, Timberlands, Delta, River Valley, Central and Ozarks
It's finder's keepers at the Crater of Diamonds State
Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. North America's only diamond mine open
to the public.
Hot Springs National Park. People have used the hot
springs here for more than two hundred years to treat illnesses and to
relax.
Visitors are amused
by some of Arkansas's colorful place names such as Hogeye, Greasy
Corner, Ink, Snowball, Romance, Apt, and Smackover, others are
attempting to learn and record how communities and landmarks received
their identities.
Riddle’s Elephant Sanctuary near Greenbrier is the only
internationally recognized sanctuary which accepts any elephant
regardless of species, gender, or disposition.
The Arkansas-Texas border runs through the center of the U.S. Post Office
Building at Texarkana.
Tyson’s, Inc., headquartered in Springdale, is the world’s largest poultry producing plant.
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State of Arkansas

About Arkansas
The first European to reach Arkansas was the Spanish
explorer Hernando de Soto at the end of the 16th century. Arkansas is
one of several U.S. states formed from the territory purchased from
Napoleon Bonaparte in the Louisiana Purchase.
Hattie Caraway of Jonesboro became the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate
One of every five Confederate casualties at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee on April 6-7, 1862, was from Arkansas.
Clinton Presidential Library is in Little Rock
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