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Hot Springs National Park
Support Your Park
You can help Hot Springs National Park in many ways. We have volunteer positions year round. Supporting the park's store in the visitor center provides funding for interpretive programs. The park Friends group, Friends of the Fordyce and Hot Springs National Park, engages in fundraising to help the park with purchases and special projects.

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black and white photo of Rector's bathhouse, a small one story frame building near the edge of Hot Springs Creek

Did You Know?
In May 1862, Arkansas Governor Henry Massie Rector moved the state government to his hotel and bathhouse located on Hot Springs Reservation, now Hot Springs National Park. That July, the government seat was moved further south to Old Washington for the remainder of the Civil War.

Last Updated: June 22, 2011 at 14:08 MST