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In the lead-up to our First Ladies' Lunch on October 6 we're featuring gowns from our historic collection. Today’s Arkansas First Lady gown takes us back to the Roaring Twenties!  ... Read More

Our seminar on “Legacy of Arkansas’s Civil War” is fast approaching on Saturday, October 10. The deadline for tickets is October 6, so register now. Today we’re joined by Dr. Elliott W ... Read More

We’re already excited about Saturday, October 10, when we will co-host the “Legacy of Arkansas’s Civil War” seminar with the Arkansas Sesquicentennial Commission. Today we welcome Dr. ... Read More

Margaret Cherry became First Lady of Arkansas in 1953 when her husband Francis Adams Cherry was elected Governor of Arkansas. Margaret, who graduated from high school in Jonesboro, met futur ... Read More

This Thursday our Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series continues with park interpreter Lydia Leatherwood of the Plantation Agriculture Museum in Scott, Arkansas. The museum highlights the history  ... Read More

Today is the LAST DAY to buy tickets to the First Ladies’ Lunch on Tuesday, October 6! To get your tickets and help to preserve the Old State House’s collection of gowns, please co ... Read More

Arkansas first ladies join forces to save exhibit of historic gowns,share stories behind their inaugural looks Tuesday last day to buy tickets for restoration fundraiser  ... Read More

It’s back to the nineteenth century with this gown, worn by Margaret “Maggie” Parkin Hadley Jones at the inauguration of her husband Governor Daniel Webster Jones in 1897. Maggie  ... Read More

On this day in 1912, Ewilda Gertrude Miller Robinson became First-Lady-Elect of Arkansas. Her husband Joseph “Joe” T. Robinson won the Arkansas governor’s election, launching one of the most ... Read More

In the lead-up to the First Ladies’ Lunch on Tuesday, October 6, we will feature each of the dresses on our blog at oldstatehouse.com. To buy tickets to the First Ladies’ lunch and help to preserv ... Read More