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Cannon on wooden platform pointed over body of water

Arkansas Post Cannon

curving country highway passing through wetlands with trees in distance

Entering Arkansas Post National Memorial

Pavilion and picnic tables overlooking fence and swampy area

Arkansas Post Overlook

Single-story buildings alongside spring-fed stream with cattle nearby

Bathhouse Row; 1867

Old white man sitting on cliff overlooking tree covered valley

Neil Compton; 1972

wood-frame buildings with tall windows on tree-covered hill side

Early Bathhouses

Three-story building with elaborate awning on front and striped awnings on windows on street with Army-Navy hospital in background

Fordyce Bathhouse

Covered wooden gallows with steps and raised walkway inside courtyard behind wooden and stone walls

Fort Smith Gallows

Multistory brick building with covered porch framed windows and flag pole on grass

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Large cannon on wheels in field with trees flag pole and multistory building in the background

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Wooden gallows with stairs on grass

Statue of woman on grave marker with blue sky

Goddess of Liberty

Shirtless white men in bath house with stalls and beds

Observation tower on tree covered mountain above multistory buildings on city streets

Hot Springs National Park

"Hot Springs National Park" sign with trees and two-story bath house with hospital building in the background

Hot Springs National Park Visitor Center

fully dressed white men in bath house sitting in hall way with changing rooms on both sides

Huffman Hamilton Bathhouse

Brick building with large front windows and people sitting inside and a slender chimney and trees

Lamar Bathhouse

Urn on top of obelisk shaped monument with engraved base

Pea Ridge Confederate Monument

Four cannons in field by split rail fence with forest beyond

Pea Ridge National Military Park

Dedication ceremony program with order of events in black text

Pea Ridge Dedication

Trees reflected in wetlands under cloudy skies

Wetlands at Arkansas Post

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