-
During the 1890s, it became increasingly clear that in spite of the extensive rebuilding of 1885-86, the State House’s days were numbered. Barely six…
-
During the 1880s, extensive repairs and remodeling addressed various problems of the State House.Even the longstanding overcrowding improved a little…
-
At the end of the Civil War, the Arkansas State House showed the effects of both the wartime hard use and pre-war deferred maintenance.In the years…
-
By 1860 Arkansas’s state house, not twenty years old, showed signs of severe deterioration. Successive Secretaries of State tried to keep up appearances…
-
When the First General Assembly of the State of Arkansas met in the unfinished State House in September 1836, incoming Governor James Conway found it…
-
In 1833, Governor John Pope chose the site for Arkansas’s new territorial courthouse or capitol: two blocks situated on a bluff overlooking the Arkansas…
-
From its first meeting in Little Rock in the summer of 1821 until its last in 1836, the Legislature of Arkansas Territory occupied no home of its own.…
-
When territorial governor James Miller arrived at Arkansas Post in late December 1819, he was not impressed by what he found: a small settlement whose…
-
The first meeting of Arkansas territory’s elected legislators convened at Montgomery’s tavern in Arkansas Post in February 1820.The quarrelsome first…
-
On the day after Christmas of 1819, a keelboat arrived at Arkansas Post, bearing General James Miller, who had been appointed Governor of the new Arkansas…