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green grass, blue sky

by susiemargare

for a relatively large city, little rock has a tremendous number of beautiful parks that are within the city limits and easy to get to. look at a city map to find them, but you will see that they are everywhere!

Mt. Fuji

by frankcanfly

When I first lived in Little Rock in the early 1990's, Mt Fuji was the only Sushi Bar in town. I go back on monday nights for the sushi buffet. Unfortunately, it's no longer the best Sushi in town....

Experiencing History In Little Rock

by cmarsek

"A great place to stop for the night"

While driving from Houston to St. Louis for my grandmother's 90th birthday, I stopped at my cousin's in Little Rock, Arkansas for a short overnight visit. The next morning she and I went to church and then formed a two car caravan on our way to the big birthday bash!

I arrived in Little Rock in the early afternoon so that left the rest of the day and the morning of the next to do a little site seeing around the Little Rock area. My cousin gave me a driving tour of the city and we visited Clinton's Presidential Library & Museum and Central High School.

A very pleasant thing I noticed was that Little Rock has a very diverse population and a very international presence. It may very well have been just the places my cousin frequents, and not the typical Little Rock experience, but it was great to experience such an international flavor in an unexpected place.

Bull Shoals

by zackjennings

"The Bank"

Built in 1881 in Ash Flat, Arkansas, this is the last remaining all wood frame bank building in Arkansas. It was in business until 1935, when the state banking department required all banks to move out of wood frame buildings and into less flammable structures. The bank was usually the finest building in town to assure the residents that the bank was a sound institution

"The General Store"

The general store was built in 1889 in Buford, Arkansas, by George N. Nelson. It was located across the street from the school house that is in the Village today.

If you had lived in the late 1800s, you'd have been able to tell it was a store even if it didn't have a sign. All you'd have to do is look on the front porch. There you'd see one of the most important items in the store -- a coal oil pump. Coal oil was the best lighting fuel available in the Ozarks at that time. You'd also see scales, on which were weighed both outgoing and incoming goods. Bars on the windows were made from wagon wheels straightened out by the blacksmith.

This is the old store counter.

"Uncle Willie's Cabin"

Uncle Willie's Cabin is the mystery house of Mountain Village 1890 -- it is the only building in the Village for which the date of construction is not known.

Local folklore says that the cabin was built by a slave as a home for himself and the white boy he raised after the boy's mother died.

The cabin was built just a mile and a half away, long before Bull Shoals was known as anything but a rough, rocky spot in the White River.

"School"

The 1890 Village schoolhouse was built in 1889 in Buford, Arkansas, and was in use in the Mountain Home, Arkansas, public school system until 1957. It was a one-room schoolhouse, housing all eight grades.