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 A
southern version of Big Foot, called the
Boggy Creek Monster, has been sighted near Fouke,
Arkansas. Said
to be seven feet tall and hairy all over, it kills chicken, cattle, dogs
and livestock.
The state prohibits moose
from being viewed from airplanes. Furthermore, it is against the law to
push a live moose out of a moving airplane.
The World's Championship
Duck Calling Contest is held annually in Stuttgart.
Mount Ida is known as the
Quartz Crystal Capital of the World.
In October 1999 in Little
Rock,
Arkansas, 20-year-old
convicted killer Kenneth Williams crawled into a 500-gallon barrel of hog
slop in a prison kitchen and escaped in when it was towed to a prison
farm. The slop barrel didn’t have a grate over its opening then but it
does now. Williams was recaptured a few days later.
Pine Bluff is known as
the world center of archery bow production.
Alma, claims to be the
Spinach Capital of the World.
Alma,
Arkansas is the Spinach Capital of
the World and commemorating this by painting its water tower to be
the "world's biggest can of spinach."
 In
Dover,
Arkansas, there is an
operational double decker
outhouse at
the
Booger Hollow Trading Post.
General Douglas
MacArthur, soldier and statesman, was born in Little Rock in 1880.
Established near the
mouth of the
Arkansas River in
1686,
Arkansas Post was the
first permanent white settlement in the state.
The geographic center of
the state is located in Pulaski, 12 miles northwest of Little Rock.
The first woman elected to the U.S. Senate was
from
Arkansas -- Hattie
Caraway, elected November 1932.
In 1885, a Little Rock newspaper offered a free plow with
each prepaid subscription of $12.
Scott Joplin, popular musician and composer, was born in Texarkana.
Hope,
Arkansas is the
self-proclaimed
Watermelon Capital of the World. Oh, yeah, it's also the birth place of ole ex-president Clinton.
After a car
car accident in which
Bonnie Parker was severely burned, she and Clyde Barrow hid out a tourist
court in Fort Smith in 1933.
An
Arkansas law provides
that school teachers who bob their hair will not get a raise.
The
Arkansas River is the
longest stream to flow into the Mississippi-Missouri river system. Its
total length is 1,450 miles.
Milk was designated as
the official state beverage in 1985.
The largest freestanding
rock formation located in
Eureka
Springs has a base circumference of about 10 inches and the top
measures almost 10 feet across.
Ouachita National Forest
is the oldest national forest in the South.
The word
Arkansas is from the
Quapaw Indian language meaning south wind.
In 1783, the only
Revolutionary War skirmish in the state occurred at
Arkansas Post, called
the Colbert Incident.
The Buffalo River is one
of the few remaining unpolluted, free-flowing rivers in the lower 48
states.
The fiddle was designated
as the official state instrument in 1985.
In Fayetteville it is
illegal to kill any living creature.
Forty-seven hot springs
flow from the southwestern slope of Hot Springs Mountain, at an average
temperature of 143 F.
The Ozark National Forest
covers more than one million acres.
Cotter,
Arkansas is known as
Trout Capital, USA.
Tracy Lawrence, the young
male country singing sensation hails from Foreman,
Arkansas.
Diamonds were discovered
iIn 1906 when a Pike County farmer, John M. Huddleston, found them where
Crater of Diamonds State Park is now.
It is unlawful to walk
one's cow down Fayetteville’s Main Street after 1:00 PM on Sunday.
Early in the 20th
century, ostrich riding and racing were popular activities at Cockburn’s
Ostrich Farm in Hot Springs.
The entire city limits of
Eureka
Springs is designated as a Historic District and listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
There is an Alligator
Farm in Hot Springs that has a petting zoo.
Magnolia,
Arkansas is home to
the world’s largest barbecue grill. The “Boys Toys” store displays
the 70+ feet long charcoal grill.
In 1876, two rival newspapers’ editors
in Fayetteville carried their editorial disagreements into a street fight.
They agreed that the loser of the fight would sell his newspaper and leave
town. He did.
In the state of
Arkansas a man can
legally beat his wife, but not more than once a month.
In
Arkansas, voters are
allowed only five minutes to mark their ballots.
In Lavaca,
Arkansas sits a giant
Budweiser Beer Can, which is a large farmer’s silo painted to evidently
look likes his favorite beverage.
In Little Rock, no person
shall sound the horn on a vehicle at any place where cold drinks or
sandwiches are served after 9:00 p.m.
The
Band Museum
in Pine Bluff,
Arkansas
is the only museum in the country devoted to band instruments and the
history of the band movement in America.
Country crooners Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Charlie Rich,
Tracy Lawrence,
and Conway Twitty
were all born in
Arkansas.
William "Bill" Doolin was the founder of
the Wild Bunch, which specialized in robbing banks, trains and
stagecoaches in
Arkansas,
Oklahoma ,
and
Kansas
in the 1890s, was born in 1858 on a farm in Johnson County north of
Clarksville. Originally a member of the
Dalton Gang,
he formed his own gang around 1893 and the Wild Bunch became the premier
terrorizers of the West until Doolin was captured in a Eureka Springs
bathhouse by Deputy U.S. Marshall Bill Tilghman in January 1896. He later
escaped federal custody and was shot and killed by a U.S. Marshall near
Lawson,
Oklahoma
Territory on August 25, 1896.
Pine Bluff is the only
city in the nation to host the 13-15 year old Babe Ruth World Series four
times.
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