"In this house I learned to walk and talk. I learned to pray I learned to read and I learned to count by number cards my grandparents tacked on the kitchen window."
— President Clinton, Dedication Speech at
the . . . — — Map (db m161922) HM
Created by the Randolph Rose Collection using the Lost Wax Cast Bronze method, these sculptures are titled "All Aboard." The Group Portrays a Train Conductor calling a woman and her daughter to catch a train in the 1920's.
First settled in . . . — — Map (db m246093) HM
Bill Clinton lived in this
house with his mother and
stepfather, Roger Clinton, from
1950 until 1953. During those
years, the future president
attended kindergarten and first
grade. Billy, as he was known
then, loved to play with . . . — — Map (db m159746) HM
This tree is believed to have been planted in 1912 when the railroad station was built. Local residents remember the days when its limbs were so long that they nearly touched the ground. A cannon sat next to this tree prior to World War II but this . . . — — Map (db m161918) HM
The last bag of mail hung on this pole was October 14, 1967 at Ward, Arkansas. This was also the final day of operation for the Railway Post Office in the state. — — Map (db m161919) HM
In 1909, the merchants of Hope paid to have the names of their business imprinted into a sidewalk which led from the old Garland School to Fair Park.
A portion of those squares were removed in 1995 for use in this new sidewalk at the train . . . — — Map (db m161920) HM
March 12, 1999. On this day two Hope natives
visited the Hope Visitor Center and museum.
President William Jefferson Clinton, in town to
dedicate his restored birthplace house, was
escorted through the center by life-long friend
Thomas Franklin . . . — — Map (db m161917) HM
This two man inspection car was built in 1948 by Fairmont Railway Motors. Signalmen especially, relied on this motor car for transportation as they inspected signals, automatic switches and crossing gates.
Known for its light weight and easy . . . — — Map (db m161915) HM
The culmination of the Camden, AR. and the Red River, LA. campaigns was to capture Texas. Two Union armies were to join at Shreveport and move West. Gen. Steele was defeated in AR. and Gen. Banks in LA. The wounded from the Battle of Prairie De Ann . . . — — Map (db m246084) HM
When Union troops occupied Little Rock on Sept. 10, 1863, Arkansas's Confederate government relocated to Washington, using the 1836 Hempstead County Courthouse as their Capitol building. The legislature met here Sept. 22 to Oct. 2, 1864, and the . . . — — Map (db m245665) HM
(Left Side)
True to their native soil. They gave their lives to a cause that was lost. Their survivors will never suffer their memory to perish.
(Right Side)
Erected by our citizens to the memory of the Confederate . . . — — Map (db m245989) WM
More than 19 companies formed in Hempstead County to fight for the Confederacy, starting with the "Hempstead Rifles," who mustered in on May 4, 1861. These local men served in the Confederate Congress - Grandison D. Royston and Rufus K. Charles . . . — — Map (db m245848) HM
Home-site of Dr. Isaac Newton Jones and Elizabeth Littlejohn Jones
Benefactors of James Black, maker of the Bowie knife. Parents of Daniel Webster Jones, Arkansas Governor 1897-1901. — — Map (db m244939) HM
In 1831 James Black, a silversmith, made for Col. James Bowie the original Bowie Knife. Black made the knife, but it was Bowie who made it famous. This shop was reconstructed in 1960 by the Pioneer Washington Restoration Foundation Inc. with funds . . . — — Map (db m245401) HM
"Let the broad mantle of Masonic charity be thrown over their errors, whatever the may have been, and may their virtues be cherished in the memory of those who survive."
Grand Master Elbert H. English 1859-1868
Erected by the most . . . — — Map (db m245567) WM
The Washington Post Office is the oldest continuous postal facility in Arkansas, having been established as Hempstead Courthouse Post Office, Arkansas Territory, February 23, 1820. This building provided by the Pioneer Washington Foundation -- . . . — — Map (db m244819) HM
