National Historic Landmark-NC Mutual Life Insurance Building

National Historic Landmark-North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Building

Built in 1921, this building was the second home office of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, which was founded in 1898.

This company evolved out of a tradition of mutual ...

National Historic Landmark - Old State House Little Rock

From 1912 to 1916, the Arkansas State Board of Health, in partnership with the University of Arkansas Medical School, worked from this building on successful campaigns to control or eradicate hookworm, a scourge of the South, and malaria, a disease ...

National Historic Landmark - Nodena Site

Located on Nodena Plantation, from which it derives it name, Nodena is the type site for an important Late Mississippian cultural component, the Nodena phase, which date from about 1400-1700 AD (contemporary with the Parkin phase). The first excavations here ...

National Historic Landmark - Menard Hodges Site

First described in 1819, this site is identified as the Quapaw village of Osotouy, where French explorer Henri de Tonty established a trading post in 1686. The late prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic site consists of two large mounds and several ...

National Historic Landmark - Little Rock Central High School

On September 24, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and ordered the Secretary of Defense to use these and other troops to effect the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. The following morning, elements of ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Smith

Established in 1817 near the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers, the first fort at this site was among the earliest U.S. military posts in Missouri Territory. The fort's purpose was to control the encroachment into Osage lands by ...

National Historic Landmark - Eaker Site

The Eaker Site is the largest and most intact Late Mississippian Nodena phase village site within the Central Mississippi Valley. The intact nature of the site is considered of national significance for its research value in providing information on cultural ...

National Historic Landmark - Centennial Baptist Church

Centennial Baptist Church was the home base for Reverend (Dr.) Elias Camp Morris from the dedication of the church in 1905 until his death in 1922. While serving as pastor, Dr. Morris was president (1895-1922) of the National Baptist Convention ...

National Historic Landmark - Camden Expedition Sites

The Camden Expedition (March 23-May 2, 1864) involved Union forces stationed at Little Rock and Fort Smith under the command of Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele. The plan called for Steele's force to march to Shreveport, Louisiana, where it would link ...

National Historic Landmark-Start Point of LA Purchase Survey

This is the point from which the lands acquired through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 were subsequently surveyed: the land surveys for all or part of the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North and ...