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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IPN_laundry-spring_Eureka-Springs-AR.html
The site of this spring was outside the area included in the 1879 survey. Known as East Mountain, this area was crowded with wood structures by 1885. The spring, which flowed from a small cave lined with projections of onyx stone, was already re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IPM_mud-street-to-main-street_Eureka-Springs-AR.html
"It being the first street in town... it was named Main Street. But owing to its low elevation and the law of gravitation, the water would find a level in the street, and as the immense travel created an abundance of mud, the street was nickname…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IPI_crescent-spring-and-trail_Eureka-Springs-AR.html
Crescent Spring was revered for its healing waters almost as much as the basin, the legendary Indian Healing Spring. Situated beside the Wagon Road on a hillside with a rocky outcropping described as "crescent" shaped, the spring was soon given …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IPH_carnegie-library_Eureka-Springs-AR.html
This is one of only four free public libraries in Arkansas funded by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It was built of native limestone and completed in 1912 on this site which was donated by Eureka Springs resident Richard C. Kerens. The architec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IPG_a-timeless-place_Eureka-Springs-AR.html
The buildings, the bluffs, the spring and The Boulevard all make this a special place in Eureka Springs which has kept a peaceful beauty of earlier times.
The front of the McLaughlin Block has changed little since it was built in 1900 to house …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IPF_clayton-becker-house_Eureka-Springs-AR.html
Crescent Cottage
on the National Register of Historic Places
Built in 1881
Home of Powell Clayton,
the first governor of Arkansas
after the state was readmitted
to the Union following
the War Between the States
Owners
Ray & Elise Dilfie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IPE_eastview-cottage_Eureka-Springs-AR.html
Eastview is situated adjacent to Harding Spring on a lot originally registered by Absalom M. Thomas after the town site survey of 1879. John E. and Bell Perrin purchased the lot and residence in October, 1881, then sold to David R. and Harriett …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IP3_grotto-spring_Eureka-Springs-AR.html
The words "esto perpetua" emblazoned upon a stone above the entrance to Grotto Spring declare the prevailing belief that these healing waters would flow forth forever. Early townspeople discovered the spring under an overhanging rock ledge, a sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IP2_avarana_Eureka-Springs-AR.html
Resort home built 1899 by William Henry Reid of Chicago. Architect Theodore C. Link of St. Louis. design reflects simplicity favored at end of Victorian era. Upper floors are wood with verandas on four sides. Lower floor is Beaver Limestone. In …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IOY_fire-and-brick-stone_Eureka-Springs-AR.html
The neighborhood above the current First Baptist Church burned in the Great Fire of 1883, the first of four Great Fires which destroyed most of the town's early wooden structures. New commercial buildings were built of more fire-resistant materi…