Moving Companies in Arkansas (AR)

Arkansas

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Here is a brief introduction to the state of Arkansas.

Capital City: Little Rock
Nicknames: Land of Opportunity, Bear State, Wonder State.
Population:  over 2.7 millions residents

State’s Flag: A diamond design recalls Arkansas’s status as the only state that produces this precious gem. The flag was adopted in 1911.

Like nowhere else in the United States, Arkansas combines the frontier spirit of the West with the genteel character of the Old South. Also, few states can claim a geography that includes such varied features as the flat Mississippi Delta and the breathtakingly rugged peaks and gorges of the Ozark and Ouachita mountains.
Not surprisingly, Arkansas’s first permanent settlement, Arkansas Post, was established along a major waterway, near the mouth of the Arkansas River. Arkansas Post, a fort built in 1686 by one of La Salle’s aides, Henri de Tonti, was moved several times during periodic flooding of the Arkansas River and served as a territorial capital until 1821.
France ceded Louisiana to Spain in 1762. Spain never made much of its possession and secretly ceded the territory back to France in 1800. With the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Arkansas became part of the United States-first attached to the Louisiana Territory and later to the Missouri Territory. Finally, Arkansas became a territory in its own right in 1819, and soon the capital moved up the Arkansas River to another community on its banks, Little Rock. Statehood followed in 1836.  Since then, water has been crucial to Arkansas’s development. At first the swampy tracts along the Mississippi River at the state’s eastern edge proved a deterrent to settlement, but the damming of the land and the damming of tributaries opened up a region rich in arable soil. From 1836 to 1860 Arkansas’s population swelled tenfold to 500,000, with many people settling on Delta land. The antebellum South thrived in such riverboat towns as Helena, which Mark Twain praised as “one of the prettiest situations on the river.”  As lovely as the view may be, living on a river can also be precarious. Arkansas’s waterways occasionally display their amazing power-for example, the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927 left one-fifth of the state under water. Arkansans have been remarkably successful, however, at harnessing nature’s waterpower for their benefit. In 1971 a $1.2 billion project to open the Arkansas River to commercial navigation from Mississippi to Tulsa was completed, making Little Rock an inland port. Dams and river engineering have created superb lakes in Arkansas, such as the reservoirs at Bull Shoals, which residents and visitors use for boating and fishing. Arkansans also know when to leave their waterways alone. The Buffalo River is a prime example. Originating in a remote section of the Ozark Mountains, this river drops 2,000 feet during its nearly 150-mile flow across north central Arkansas. It shimmers beneath 500-foot-high limestone bluffs, joins with smaller spring-fed streams, rolls by box canyons, and provides some of the most spectacular canoeing in the United States. In 1972 the Buffalo River became the country’s first watercourse to win designation as a National River.
In 1836 Arkansas joins the Union as 25th state. In 1861 Arkansas secedes. Some 9,000 whiles and 5,000 blacks join Union Army. 1957 In defiance of federal court order, Gov. Orval Faubus blocks integration of Central High School in Little Rock. Federal troops are sent in. In 1992 Former governor William Jefferson Clinton, Hope native and Little Rock resident, is elected 42nd President of the United States.

Manufacturing: Animal feeds, cottonseed oil, paper products, fabricated metal products.
Service industries: Automobile trade; department stores, discount stores; finance, insurance, and real estate; medical facilities.
Agriculture: Broiler chickens, beet cattle, soybeans, rice.

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