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  • [X] Historic Washington State Park

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  • July 2020

Photo Essay: Branches in Time

Jul 2020
  ⁄  
Leita Spears

Historic Washington State Park in southwest Arkansas is well known as a historic village filled with preserved 19th-century homes and buildings. Besides these structures, you can also walk through town and explore a unique collection of living witnesses to the history of Washington: its many historic and champion trees.

Giant magnolia tree at Historic Washington State Park

Video: Reading of the Declaration of Independence

Jul 2020
  ⁄  
Josh Williams

In the 19th century, in many towns across the U.S., one of the common things done on the 4th of July was to hold a reading of the Declaration of Independence. It was a regular tradition here in Washington, Arkansas. We continue that same tradition today at Historic Washington State Park by reading the declaration and remembering the founding of our nation, the United...

Josh Williams dressed in period wear reading the Declaration of Independence
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