Endeavor Hall

The Methodist Episcopal Church built this hall in the 1860’s for worship, education, and fellowship.

The Congregation Church Christian Endeavor Society acquired the property in 1896. After Congregation services ended in 1916, volunteer trustees maintained the hall for community use.

Citizens ...

The Basin Park Sycamore

I stood here growing so many years,

I shared your laughter, I shared your tears.

My life was good, beginning to end,

and this is a wish I'd like to send.

Be happy and kind to all around,

and let not sorrow be ever found.

The ...

The Southern Hotel

The Southern was built in the year 1880 adjacent to Basin Spring and some 25 feet above it on the hillside. L.M. Rainey of Missouri, its original owner, sold the hotel to W. E. Beatty in 1886, at which time ...

Civil War Healing

The Eureka Springs area's reputation as a health resort has its origins in the Civil War. Late 19th-century accounts claim Dr. Alvah Jackson treated sick and wounded soldiers during the war. In early 1865, Maj. J. W. Cooper, who led ...

The Civic Center

South Main

These two large limestone public buildings anchor this part of downtown Eureka Springs. They span the deep ravine cut by Leatherwood Creek which flows in a tunnel beneath all the buildings on this entire part of Main Street.

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This ...

Phelan-Verot House Built Prior to 1866

On February 5, 1875, Jean-Pierre Augustin Verot, Bishop of Saint Augustine, purchased this cottage from Sarah Phelan. The Sisters of Saint Joseph lived here in the year 1877, when a devastating epidemic of yellow fever swept over the Amelia Island ...

The Western District Courthouse

Eureka Springs was incorporated on Valentine's Day in 1880. At that time, the only courthouse was in the county seat of Berryville, some 12 miles to the east. This was a great distance at the time, the roads were bad, ...

American Elm

Ulmus americana

Native to Eastern N. America. Planted widely for shade and shelterbelts as one of the most popular trees of the city streets, lawns, and parks. However, it is no longer the "famous shade tree" of the past, nor widely ...

Jones Iron Works Park

In 1869, John P. Jones and sons moved from the fort at Johnson Springs and purchased land and springs on the east bench of the community. Jones, who was an iron worker, built a coke oven and blast furnace where ...

George Washington Elm Tree

Washington first took command of the American Army under the Grandparent of this Elm at Cambridge, Mass.

July 3, 1775.

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Raised and presented by Maryland D.A.R., marked by Oklahoma D.A.R.,

This tree is planted as part of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth ...