Arkansas State Parks Trip Ideas

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More to Washington than meets the eye

Apr 2023

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Chris Adams

On each tour at Historic Washington State Park, if people look down, they will sometimes notice an artifact, such as broken pottery, gracing the ground where a burrowing rodent has shifted it to the top of the surface. This artifact was hidden throughout the years and was biding its time, waiting for discovery. Like this pottery, the 1850s landscape we interpret lies at...

black and white plot graph of Historic Washington State Park

Exploring the Rainbow at Crater of Diamonds State Park

Apr 2023

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Tayler Markham

Greetings from the Crater of Diamonds State Park! While diamonds come in all colors of the rainbow, diamonds found at the Crater of Diamonds are white, brown, or yellow. More than 60% of Crater diamonds are white, 20% are brown and less than 20% are yellow. A diamond’s color is influenced by its journey from deep within the earth to the surface.

Someone holding white yellow and brown diamonds found at Crater of Diamonds State Park in their hand

Discovering Conglomerates at the Crater

Sep 2022

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Tayler Markham

A conglomerate is a sedimentary rock made of other rocks glued together, like nature’s concrete! They have a variety of colorful rocks cemented together

More to the Story: Sanders Kitchen

Sep 2022

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Chris Adams

The Sanders Kitchen, located on lot 1 of Block 32, is a part of the "urban farmstead" of the Sanders House at Historic Washington State Park. Other people may know it as the Sanders-Garland house. This name reflected the marriage of the Sanders' daughter, Sara, to Augustus Garland. This structure is a 1995 reconstruction based on archeological and photographic evidence of...