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Hot Springs, AR 71901

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Hot Springs, AR 71903

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Central Avenue    

Arsenic Springs

Oaklawn Racetrack

Valley Street ca 1875

Arscenic Spring
Turn of the Century

Oaklawn Park
Early 20th Century


     
7 South Lake Hamilton Bridge
 Boat Races 1930s		 Blakely Mountain Power Plant 1952 Southern Club 1930s
     
Al Capone at Happy Hollow Mayor Leo McLaughlin with Scotch & Soda Diamond Joe Railroad 1870s
     
Fire of 1878 Fire of 1905 Malvern Avenue Fire of 1913
Rockefellow Hotel and Bathhouse
Park Entrance Early 1900s Army Navy Hostpital 1887 Rockefellow Hotel & Bathhouse
ca. 1920s
Arlington Hotel   Arlington Hotel   Arlington Hotel
First Arlington Hotel
1875-1892 		Second Arlington Hotel
1893-1923

Third Arlington Hotel
1924-Present
campsite.jpg (56814 bytes) Hot Springs Fountain downtown1.jpg (46637 bytes)
Campsite in Ral City
ca. 1880		 Fountain 1950s
Central, Whittington & Park		 Eastman Hotel at Broadway &
Spring   1920s - 1930s
     
campsite2.jpg (66807 bytes) Hot Springs, Arkansas F D Roosevelt with Donald Libby, Park Superintendant, June 1936
Ral Hole
ca. 1880		 Valley Street (renamed Central
ca. 1860s		 FDR with Donald Libby, Part Superintendent
in Hot Springs, June 15,1936
     
Happy Hollow Zoo Hot Springs High School Human Flag Happy Hollow
Happy Hollow Zoo Oaklawn Park: Elementary Students in
Human Flag for Theodore Roosevelt 1910		 Happy Hollow
ca. 1950s
     
Ostrich Happy Hollow Central Avenue
Ostrich Farm - Early 1900s Happy Hollow
Turn of the Century		 Central Avenue Mid 1930s
     
Rector Bathhouse Majestic Hotel Downtown Hot Springs
Rector Bathhouse
ca. 1920s		 Majestic Hotel 1930s Central Avenue 1950s
     
First Jail Ozark Bathhouse Oaklawn Racetrack 1919
First Jail: Burned 1878 Ozark Bathhouse Oaklawn Racetrack
Early 20th Century
     
Oaklawn Oaklawn Racetrack Pavilion Park
Oaklawn Racetrack
Early 20th Century		 Oaklawn Pavilion
Early 20th Century		 Arlington Park
Tufa Rock
     
Mountain View
View from West Mountain
Early 1950s
     

 

 
 
 

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