Hot Springs, Arkansas See also: Hot Springs National Park
City of Hot Springs Aerial view of Hot Springs, Army-Navy Hospital, a pool of hot spring water in Hot Springs National Park, the Central Avenue Historic District, Bathhouse Row Aerial view of Hot Springs, Army-Navy Hospital, a pool of hot spring water in Hot Springs National Park, the Central Avenue Historic District, Bathhouse Row Hot Springs is the eleventh-largest town/city in the state of Arkansas and the governmental center of county of Garland County.
Interior Highlands, and is set among a several natural hot springs for which the town/city is named.
The center of Hot Springs is the earliest federal reserve in the United States, today preserved as Hot Springs National Park.
The hot spring water has been popularly believed for centuries to possess medicinal properties, and was a subject of legend among a several Native American tribes.
One of the biggest Pentecostal denominations in the United States, the Assemblies of God, traces its beginnings to Hot Springs.
Today, much of Hot Springs's history is preserved by various government entities.
Hot Springs National Park is maintained by the National Park Service, including Bathhouse Row, which preserves the eight historic bathhouse buildings and plant nurseries along Central Avenue.
Downtown Hot Springs is preserved as the Central Avenue Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Due to the popularity of the thermal waters, Hot Springs benefited from rapid expansion during a reconstructionwhen many metros/cities saw a sharp diminish in building; much like Miami's art deco districts.
As a result, Hot Springs's architecture is a key part of the city's blend of cultures, including a reputation as a tourist town and a Southern city.
Also a destination for the arts, Hot Springs features the Hot Springs Music Festival, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, and the Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival annually.
4.2.2 Bathhouse Row, Hot Springs National Park The Quapaw Bathhouse, along Hot Springs' famed "Bathhouse Row" George Hunter and William Dunbar made an expedition to the springs, finding a lone log cabin and a several rudimentary shelters used by citizens visiting the springs for their healing properties.
In 1807, a man titled Prudhomme became the first settler of undivided Hot Springs, and he was soon joined by John Perciful and Isaac Cates.
On August 24, 1818, the Quapaw Indians ceded the territory around the hot springs to the United States in a treaty.
Twelve years later, in 1832, the Hot Springs Reservation was created by the United States Congress, granting federal protection of the thermal waters.
The reservation was retitled Hot Springs National Park in 1921.
The outbreak of the American Civil War left Hot Springs with a declining bathing population.
Rector moved his staff and state records to Hot Springs.
Many inhabitants of Hot Springs fled to Texas or Louisiana and remained there until the end of the war.
After the Civil War, an extensive stone of bathhouses and hotels took place at Hot Springs.
In 1874, Joseph Reynolds announced his decision to construct a narrow-gauge barns from Malvern to Hot Springs; culmination in 1875 resulted in the expansion of visitation to the springs.
Congress and resulted in an April 24, 1876, Supreme Court ruling that the territory title of Hot Springs belonged to the federal government.
To deal with the situation, Congress formed the Hot Springs Commission to lay out streets in the town of Hot Springs, deal with territory claims, define property lines, condemn buildings illegally on the permanent reservation (now the nationwide park) and define a process for claimants to purchase land.
The commission surveyed and set aside 264.93 acres (1.0721 km2) encompassing the hot springs and Hot Springs Mountain to be a permanent government reservation.
During the early 20th century (1894 1925), Hot Springs was known for baseball training camps after the assembly of Whittington Park in 1894.
Today there are 26 markers posted throughout Hot Springs on the "Hot Springs Baseball Historic Trail" that identify key citizens and locations. Racing toward the company section, it finished the Ozark Sanitarium and Hot Springs High School on its way athwart Malvern Avenue.
Aerial view of Hot Springs after 1925 along Central Avenue.
The base of Hot Springs Mountain is in top right, behind Bathhouse Row.
Illegal gambling became firmly established in Hot Springs amid the decades following the Civil War, with two factions, the Flynns and the Dorans, fighting one another throughout the 1880s for control of the town.
Frank Flynn, prestige of the Flynn Faction, had effectively begun paying small-town law enforcement officers working by both the Hot Springs Police Department and the Garland County Sheriff's Office to collect unpaid debts, as well as to intimidate gambling rivals.
This contributed to the March 16, 1899, Hot Springs Gunfight.
Of the seven Hot Springs police officers that have been killed while in service of the department, three died amid that gunfight, killed by deputies of the Garland County Sheriff's Office.
Along with Bathhouse Row, one of downtown Hot Springs' most noted landmarks is the Arlington Hotel, a favored retreat for Al Capone. Hot Springs eventually became a nationwide gambling mecca, led by Owney Madden and his Hotel Arkansas casino.
Until other forms of gambling became legal in Arkansas four decades later, Oaklawn Park, a thoroughbred horse racing track south of downtown, was the only legal gambling establishment in Hot Springs and one of only two in the state of Arkansas; the other was the Southland Greyhound Park dog track in West Memphis.
Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center now known as Arkansas Career Training Institute was formerly an Army and Navy Hospital.
In 1944, the Army began redeploying returning overseas soldiers; officials inspected hotels in 20 metros/cities before selecting Hot Springs as a redistribution center for returning soldiers.
In August 1944 the Army took over most of the hotels in Hot Springs.
Downtown Hot Springs, as seen from mountain overlook Hot Springs is positioned in southeastern Garland County at 34 29 50 N 93 03 19 W. It sits at the southeastern edge of the Ouachita Mountains and is 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Little Rock.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city of Hot Springs has a total region of 35.1 square miles (91.0 km2), of which 35.0 square miles (90.7 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km2), or 0.35%, is water. The town/city takes its name from the natural thermal water that flows from 47 springs on the slope of Hot Springs Mountain in the historic downtown precinct of the city.
Studies by National Park Service scientists have determined through radiocarbon dating that the water that reaches the surface in Hot Springs fell as rainfall 4,400 years earlier. The water percolates very slowly down through the earth's surface until it reaches superheated areas deep in the crust and then rushes quickly to the surface to emerge from the 47 hot springs.
Hot Springs Creek flows from Whittington Avenue, then is underground in a tunnel beneath Bathhouse Row (Central Ave).
Hot Springs rain is impacted by the orographic effect of the Ouachita Mountains.
Climate data for Hot Springs, Arkansas (1981 2010 normals) Hot Springs is the principal town/city of the Hot Springs urbane area, which includes all of Garland County, registering a populace of 96,024 in 2010 as stated to the United States Enumeration Bureau.
The town/city has been a tourist mecca for generations due to the thermal waters and attractions such as Oaklawn Park, a thoroughbred racing facility; Magic Springs and Crystal Falls infamous parks; a fine arts improve that has earned the town/city the No.
4 position among "America's Top 100 Small Arts Towns"; the Hot Springs Music Festival; and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, held each October at the historic Malco Theater, attracting various Academy Award-winning films and producers. Other annual affairs in town include the Valley of the Vapors Music Festival, the no-charge Hot Springs Jazz Festival in September, the no-charge Hot Springs Blues Festival in September, the downtown Bathtub Races in the spring, the Big Barbecue Cookoff in spring and fall, the World's Shortest St.
Perhaps the most prominent of these affairs is the Hot Springs Technology Institute (HSTI), drawing over 1,300 participants each June.
Hot Springs is also home to the annual alternate reality game Midnight Madness, based on the movie from which it gets its name.
Bathhouse Row, Hot Springs National Park Main articles: Bathhouse Row and Hot Springs National Park Bathhouse Row, consisting of eight turn-of-the century historic buildings, lies inside Hot Springs National Park and is managed by the National Park Service.
Buckstaff Bathhouse has been in continuous operation since 1912 and is one of the best-preserved structures on Bathhouse Row. The Buckstaff Bathhouse Company has instead of the majority of maintenance and renovation that has occurred without outside funding. The Quapaw was restored by the NPS in 2004, and the renovated structure was leased to Quapaw Baths, LLC, which now operates a undivided spa with pools and hot tubs. The Lamar was renovated into offices for park staff and Bathhouse Row Emporium, the park's official store. The Superior Bathhouse Brewery and Distillery has occupied Superior Bathhouse since 2012, using hot spring water in its beers and spirits. As of February 2014, the Maurice, Ozark, and Hale bathhouses are all available for rent from the NPS. Atop Hot Springs Mountain in the park is the Hot Springs Mountain Tower, a 216-foot (66 m) observation fortress assembled in 1982.
Today preserved by NRHP as Hot Springs Central Avenue Historic District, the precinct includes 77 contributing properties to the precinct between Prospect Street and Park Avenue. Included inside this precinct are the 1924 Arlington Hotel, the Medical Arts Building, a 1929 Art Deco high-rise, and the Wade Building, assembled in 1927 in the neoclassical style. Thirteen of Hot Springs's hotels are individually listed by the NRHP inside the city, with more being listed as contributing properties inside other districts.
Four of Hot Springs' neighborhoods are preserved as historic districts by the National Register of Historic Places, and the town/city also contains five historically meaningful commercial districts in addition to the aforementioned Bathhouse Row and Central Avenue Historic District.
The town/city contains a several historic hotels, including the Arlington Hotel, Jack Tar Hotel and Bathhouse, Mountainaire Hotel Historic District, Park Hotel, and the Riviera Hotel.
During Hot Springs' heyday, a several tourists visiting the town/city stayed at motor courts, the precursor to today's hotels.
The NRHP recognizes seven of these motels as culturally and historically significant: Bellaire Court Historic District, Cottage Courts Historic District, Cove Tourist Court, George Klein Tourist Court Historic District, Lynwood Tourist Court Historic District, Parkway Courts Historic District, Perry Plaza Court Historic District, and the Taylor Rosamond Motel Historic District.
The Quapaw-Prospect Historic District contains 233 structures near downtown Hot Springs, with 139 residentiary homes contributing to the character of the precinct built between 1890 and 1950 in a several architectural styles. The Whittington Park Historic District is a residentiary precinct lining Whittington Park, a long, narrow park between two one-way streets created by the National Park Service in 1897.
Predominantly Craftsman, ranch and Queen Anne-style buildings, the precinct is northwest of downtown Hot Springs.
Seven districts in Hot Springs have special historical significance to the city's past economy.
Built in 1933, the six-story brick building assembled in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with Art Deco detailing is the centerpiece of the district, and remains the most imposing figure on the Hot Springs skyline.
The Hot Springs Railroad Warehouse Historic District preserves three brick buildings between the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks and Broadway.
Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine are two reservoirs of the Ouachita River south of Hot Springs created for hydroelectric power generation and recreational uses.
Due to the economic importance of the dam to Hot Springs, Carpenter Dam was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Fishing is prominent on Lake Hamilton, and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission operates a fish hatchery to stock the lake with bass and other species. President Bill Clinton, his half-brother Roger, and Billy Bob Thornton, all Hot Springs natives, have been known to incessant Oaklawn Park in the past.
Hot Springs operates under the council-manager form of town/city government, one of the two most common forms of small-town government in the United States, and common in lesser municipalities.
As a body, the board is the prime executive branch of Hot Springs government whose duties include making policy, creating a budget, and passing resolutions and ordinances.
The seventh member is a mayor propel at-large by Hot Springs.
Hot Springs enhance secondary education includes five school districts, ultimately dominant to graduation from five different high schools.
The majority of Hot Springs is encompassed in the Hot Springs School District, which leads to graduation from Hot Springs High School.
East of the Hot Springs School District is the Cutter Morning Star School District, dominant to graduation from Cutter Morning Star High School, and the Lakeside School District, dominant to graduation from Lakeside High School is positioned southeast of town.
The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts (ASMSA), an advanced statewide program inside the University of Arkansas System and National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology, is also positioned in Hot Springs.
Hot Springs Christian School is the only private provider of K 12 education in Hot Springs.
The only accredited post-secondary educational opportunity in Hot Springs is at National Park Community College.
Champion Baptist College, an unaccredited four-year Christian vocational college associated with Gospel Light Baptist Church, is also positioned in Hot Springs.
The Hot Springs journal is the Sentinel-Record, originally part of the Clyde E.
Hot Springs is part of the Little Rock tv market.
Route 70 Business passes through the center of Hot Springs as Grand Avenue, Summer Street, Albert Pike Road, and Airport Road, while U.S.
Arkansas Highway 7 passes through the center of Hot Springs as Central Avenue and Park Avenue.
Arkansas Highway 128 (Carpenter Dam Road) chapters off US-270 Business in southeastern Hot Springs, dominant south 4 miles (6 km) to Red Oak.
Interstate 30 passes to the southeast of Hot Springs, with the closest access 17 miles (27 km) to the southeast via US-270.
Hot Springs is served by Hot Springs Memorial Field Airport.
Major air transport is available through Little Rock National Airport, approximately 55 miles (89 km) from Hot Springs.
Bobby Bones, radio personality born in Hot Springs Alan Clark, state senator from Garland, Hot Spring, Saline, and Grant counties, businessman in Hot Springs Corbin, Arkansas Supreme Court justice and state representative, born in Hot Springs Bruce Cozart, developer in Hot Springs, District 24 member of the Arkansas House of Representatives since 2001 Davis, temporary head of the Arkansas state police amid the Winthrop Rockefeller administration, cleared Hot Springs of illegal gambling in 1967 Cliff Harris, NFL Dallas Cowboys no-charge safety, played quarterback at Hot Springs High School until his senior year, when he moved to Des Arc Howard, Church of Christ minister who established the International Gospel Hour in Texarkana, Texas; pastor in Hot Springs early in his longterm position The Countess Leon (Elisa Heuser Leon), the widow of Bernhard Muller, a prestige of a small 19th century utopian group, spent her last years in Hot Springs, where she died in 1881 Arch Mc - Donald, baseball broadcaster born in Hot Springs Joan Meredith, actress born in Hot Springs Bobby Mitchell, NFL Hall of Fame running back born in Hot Springs James Rector, born in Hot Springs, won a silver medal at the Olympics and was the first Olympian from Arkansas Brown, decorated World War II aviators, Hot Springs natives who served as reform mayor and sheriff, in the order given (1947 49), before resuming Air Force careers Paul Runyan, golfer born in Hot Springs; went on to win two PGA championships and is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame House from Louisiana's 4th congressional district, relocated to Hot Springs, where he engaged in the real estate company and died in 1884 Billy Bob Thornton, actor, director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, born in Hot Springs "City of Hot Springs Arkansas".
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