Most people are lucky to have success in one career, but Lon Warneke shone in several. Warneke’s talents and character took him from a small farm near Mount...

In 1836, John C. and Sara Hale purchased land along both sides of what is now Bathhouse Row. While John built a bath house and hotel, Sara claimed part of th...

Did you know that for many years a swimming lake was a popular summer attraction in Gulpha Gorge Campground?

Where did Hot Springs’ residents and tourists go for arts and entertainment long ago? The best of the early theaters was a hall (with a tin roof) above the f...

The creation of lakes Hamilton, Catherine and Ouachita started with the dream of a former Ouachita River steamboat pilot, Flave Carpenter.

Hot Springs has enjoyed going to the movies since 1907, when residents saw silent movies at the Whittington Amusement Park Theater. Several theaters soon app...

Twenty-one-year-old Massachusetts native Hiram Whittington came to the Arkansas Territory in 1826 to work as a printer for the Arkansas Gazette. In 1832 Hira...

Late in the 19th century, as Jim Crow laws were enacted, Major League teams began to bar participation by Black players, a sad fact that would not change unt...

By all rights, you should hear ghostly train whistles at Transportation Depot at Market Street and Broadway Terrace. Locomotives pulled into the Iron Mountai...

Singers in gleaming white vestments, holding candles, filed down the winding Hot Springs Mountain trail. On Arlington Lawn they took their places on a stage ...

Who was Marjorie Lawrence and what was her connection to Hot Springs?

When Owney Madden moved to Hot Springs in 1935, he was one of the most-feared gangsters in the country. At his death in 1965, he was eulogized as a “truly di...

The first schools in the Hot Springs area were subscription schools, circa 1845, at Chalybeate Springs and at the lower end of Hot Springs Valley. These clos...

To a lot of people, growing up in Hot Springs wasn’t special because of our famous bath houses or historic buildings. It was special because, on crisp fall n...

“There was a time when Hot Springs always knew where to find a feather to put in its cap,” a reporter once wrote.  That place was the Ostrich Farm,  a source...