Garland County

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The American Spa
The American Spa: Hot Springs, Arkansas is 1982 work of history written by Dee Brown, author of the bestsellin...
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Arkansas [Book and Movie]
The book Arkansas is a debut novel by John Brandon that was originally released in 2008 by McSweeney’s Publi...
jockey sitting astride horse draped with flowers while woman the lead, with logo in top-right corner reading, "Hot Springs National Park Arkansas," and text at bottom reading, Smarty Jones, Oaklawn"
Arkansas Derby
The Arkansas Derby is the most lucrative thoroughbred horse race in Arkansas, currently offering a “purse”...
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Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA) in Hot Springs (Garland County) is the only pub...
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Arkansas Walk of Fame
The Arkansas Walk of Fame, located in downtown Hot Springs (Garland County), was established in 2009 and consi...
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Arlington Hotel
The Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs (Garland County) was built at the dawn of the city’s golden era as a reso...
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Army-Navy Hospital
aka: Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center
aka: Arkansas Career Training Institute
The building that later became the Hot Springs Rehabilitation Cente...
Earl Robert Babbie (1938–)
Earl Robert Babbie of Hot Springs Village (Garland and Saline counties) is an acclaimed sociologist best known...
Paper label "Bachman Port"
Joseph Bachman (1853–1928)
Joseph Bachman is widely recognized as Arkansas’s leading developer of grape varieties. During his career, h...
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Marian Breland Bailey (1920–2001)
Marian Ruth Kruse Breland Bailey was a pioneer in the field of animal behavior. Marian and her first husband, ...
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Al Baldwin (1923–1994)
Hampered by a chronic bone infection, Al Baldwin underwent five different foot surgeries in high school before...
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Bathhouse Row
Bathhouse Row Historic District extends along the foot of the mountain that gives rise to the thermal springs ...
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Bear (Garland County)
Bear of Garland County was a boom town of the 1880s whose phenomenal growth was fueled by rumors that gold, si...
Single-story housing units with gabled roofs and covered porches on parking lot
Bellaire Court Historic District
The Bellaire Court Historic District is a tourist court in Hot Springs (Garland County). Constructed in 1936, ...
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Big Chalybeate Spring
The Big Chalybeate Spring is located approximately three miles north of downtown Hot Springs (Garland County) ...
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Bill Clinton Boyhood Home
aka: Birnbaum-Shubetz House
The boyhood home of President Bill Clinton is today a private resid...
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Blakely (Garland County)
The small community of Blakely originated as a logging camp of the Dierks Lumber and Coal Company. Named for B...
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Raynal Cawthorne Bolling (1877–1918)
Raynal Cawthorne Bolling was a lawyer as well as a pioneering aviator who led a mission to Europe during World...
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The Bookmaker's Daughter
The Bookmaker’s Daughter: A Memory Unbound is a memoir by Shirley Abbott, who was from Hot Springs (Garland ...
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Keller Bramwell Breland (1915–1965)
Keller Bramwell Breland was perhaps best known in Arkansas as the co-owner and operator of the IQ Zoo, a touri...
Henry M. Britt (1919–1995)
Henry M. Britt was the first Republican to be elected as a trial judge in Arkansas since Reconstruction. He se...
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Buckville (Garland County)
The community of Buckville, located on the upper Ouachita River in Garland County, emerged as a small town am...
Rows of grave markers in cemetery with lake in the background
Buckville Cemetery
The community of Buckville (Garland County) was inundated by the waters of Lake Ouachita in the 1950s; the rem...
Dallas Bump (1918–2016)
Dallas Bump of Royal (Garland County) was a fourth-generation chair maker who constructed handcrafted furnitur...
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Ruth Coker Burks (1959–)
Ruth Burks is an Arkansas woman who, in the midst of the 1980s AIDS epidemic, provided support for dozens of m...
"Bailey's" ice cream stand on parking lot
Butchie's Drive-In
What was originally called Butchie’s Drive-In is a small restaurant located on Park Avenue in Hot Springs (G...
Camp Hot Springs
To alleviate overcrowding of German and Italian prisoners of war (POWs) in Great Britain and the rest of Europ...
Eugene “Bud” Canada (1925–2009)
Eugene “Bud” Canada was a longtime member of the Arkansas General Assembly, serving in both the House of R...
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Carpenter Dam
aka: Lake Hamilton
Carpenter Dam is the second of three dams constructed along the Oua...
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James Alexander Cary (1895–1927)
James Alexander Cary, a park policeman at Hot Springs National Park from 1923 to 1927, was the first employee ...
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CCC Company 3767 Powder Magazine Historic District
The CCC Company 3767 Powder Magazine Historic District, located near Jessieville in Garland County, consists o...
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Cedar Glades (Garland County)
The community of Cedar Glades, located on the upper Ouachita River in Garland County, served as a transportat...