Eureka Springs, Arkansas Eureka Springs, Arkansas Clockwise, from top: aerial view of Eureka Springs, Eureka Springs Public Library, Carroll County Courthouse, Commercial Historic District at evening, Thorncrown Chapel Clockwise, from top: aerial view of Eureka Springs, Eureka Springs Public Library, Carroll County Courthouse, Commercial Historic District at evening, Thorncrown Chapel Location in Carroll County and Arkansas Eureka Springs Historic District (Boundary Increase) Eureka Springs, Arkansas is positioned in Arkansas Eureka Springs, Arkansas Eureka Springs is a town/city in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States, and one of two county seats for the county. It is positioned in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas.
The entire town/city is on the National Register of Historic Places as the Eureka Springs Historic District.
Eureka Springs has been chose as one of America's Distinctive Destinations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Eureka Springs was originally called "The Magic City" and later the "Stairstep Town" because of its mountainous terrain and the winding, up-and-down paths of its streets and walkways.
View of Eureka Springs from up on an observation tower; the Crescent Hotel is visible on the horizon (2008) Harding Spring (2008) Native American legends tell of a Great Healing Spring in the Eureka Springs area.
People of various indigenous cultures long visited the springs for this sacred purpose.
The European Americans also believed that the springs had healing powers.
After the Europeans arrived, they described the waters of the springs as having magical powers.
Alvah Jackson was credited in American history with locating the spring, and in 1856 claimed that the waters of Basin Spring had cured his eye ailments.
Jackson established a hospital in a small-town cave amid the Civil War and used the waters from Basin Spring to treat his patients.
After the war, Jackson marketed the spring waters as "Dr.
Saunders, a friend of Jackson, claimed that his crippling disease was cured by the spring waters.
Saunders started promoting Eureka Springs to friends and family members athwart the state and created a boomtown.
Within a reconstructionof little more than one year, the town/city period from a non-urban spa village to a primary city.
Within a short time in the late 19th century, Eureka Springs advanced as a expand city, spa and tourist destination.
On February 14, 1880, Eureka Springs was incorporated as a city.
Thousands of visitors came to the springs based on Saunders' promotion and veiled the region with tents and shanties.
In 1881, Eureka Springs appreciateed the status of Arkansas's fourth biggest city, and by 1889 it had turn into the second biggest city, behind Little Rock.
After his term as a Reconstruction governor, Powell Clayton moved to the heavily Unionist Eureka Springs and began promoting the town/city and its commercial interests.
Eureka Springs soon became known for gracious living and a wealthy lifestyle.
In 1882, the Eureka Improvement Company was formed to attract a barns to the city.
With the culmination of the barns , Eureka Springs established itself as a vacation resort.
In 1892, the New Orleans Hotel and Spa was assembled along Spring Street and is now operating as an all-suite hotel full of Victorian furniture and art.
The Ozarka Water Company was later formed in Eureka Springs in 1905.
The only bank robbery to occur in Eureka Springs was on September 27, 1922, when five outlaws from Oklahoma tried to rob the First National Bank.
The organization continues to present an annual summer opera festival in Eureka Springs.
On May 10, 2014, Eureka Springs became the first town/city in Arkansas to copy marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
On May 12, 2015, Eureka Springs passed a Non-Discrimination Ordinance (Ord.
It became the first town/city in Arkansas to have such a law to cover LGBT inhabitants and tourists.
Eureka Springs is positioned in Carroll County at 36 24 11 N 93 44 18 W (36.403068, -93.738450). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.9 square miles (17.9 km2), of which 6.8 square miles (17.5 km2) is territory and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km2), or 2.02%, is water. The center of the town/city is in a narrow valley at the headwaters of Leatherwood Creek, a north-flowing tributary of the White River.
Arkansas Highway 23 is Main Street through the center of Eureka Springs and leads north 11 miles (18 km) to the Missouri state line.
The town/city was established when the springs at this locale were more evident.
Over-extraction of water from the springs has greatly diminished their flow rates.
All of the more than 140 springs in the town are cold-water springs. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Eureka Springs has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Climate data for Eureka Springs, Arkansas (1981 2010 normals) Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 2.4 2.6 0.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 2.0 8.2 There are 1,119 homeholds, of which 19.2% have kids under the age of 18 living with them, 37.4% were married couples living together, 10.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 49.1% are classified as non-families by the United States Enumeration Bureau.
The improve is supported by elected public education from the Eureka Springs School District and its facilities: Eureka Springs High School (9 12) Eureka Springs Middle School (5 8) Eureka Springs Elementary School (PK 4) Clear Spring School (PK 12) Eureka Springs hosts a range of affairs throughout the year.
May Festival of the Arts is an annual month-long celebration of the arts in Eureka Springs.
2013 marked the opening of the Eureka Springs Music Park: an interactive sound sculpture experience, in the North Main Park.
The Eureka Springs Food & Wine Festival is an annual fall event featuring fine cuisine and global wines.
The Eureka Gras Mardi Gras Extravaganza was introduced in 2006 to kick off the Event Season with a New Orleans-style Mardi Gras celebration, complete with parades, floats, and masquerade balls.
Eureka Springs holds an annual Halloween Festival.
The town/city also holds an annual UFO conference and a several auto shows, including a Ford Mustang show in April, a Corvette show amid the first weekend in October, and a Volkswagen show held in August.
For over-the-air television, Eureka Springs is served by the market based out of Springfield, Missouri.
It prints the Eureka Springs Visitors Guide.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Arkansas version is the only daily journal distributed in the area.
The movie Chrystal was filmed in Eureka Springs.
Parts of the movie Elizabethtown were filmed in Eureka Springs.
Eureka Springs & North Arkansas Railway Blue Spring Heritage Center In the late 19th century barns service reached Eureka Springs via the Eureka Springs Railway, whose chief promoter was the former Governor Powell Clayton.
From 1906 to 1946, Eureka Springs was a point on the defunct Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, which provided passenger and freight service northward to Joplin, Missouri, and southeastward to Helena, Arkansas. The tourist barns , the Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway, has directed in Eureka Springs since 1981.
John Chisum, 19th century cattle baron, died in Eureka Springs Frank Stanford, poet, wrote much of his poem The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You while living in the New Orleans Hotel in Eureka Springs from 1972-73.
James William Trimble, congressman from Arkansas's 3rd congressional precinct from 1945 to 1967, died in Eureka Springs but resided in Berryville Spring Street (2008) Spring Street at evening (2008) "Eureka Springs Civil Rights Ordinance Still In Effect Even with State Law".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Eureka Springs city, Arkansas".
"Climate Summary for Eureka Springs, Arkansas." "Eureka Springs Mardi Gras." Welcome to Eureka Springs and Carroll County, Arkansas.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Eureka Springs.
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