The North Little Rock Heritage Center at 506 Main Street is located in the city’s first fire station. Constructed in 1895, the city’s main fire station was in the building until 1962. Rebuilt in 2003, the building is home to the North Little Rock History Commission and the North Little Rock Historic District Commission. The first floor features…
Places Category: Local History & Heritage
Plantation Agriculture Museum
Educational exhibits on Arkansas’s cotton agriculture history from 1836 through World War II.
The Old Mill at T. R. Pugh Memorial Park
An historic re-creation of an 1880’s water-powered grist mill, The Old Mill has won many awards, including the 2018 TripSavvy Editor’s Choice Award in the category of Historic Attractions; #2 Best Arkansas Attraction in USAToday’s 10Best Reader’s Choice Awards, and the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence. It is in the opening scenes of the classic movie…
Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum
Located on the Arkansas River in beautiful downtown North Little Rock, the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum (AIMM) provides guided tours of the historic submarine USS Razorback (SS-394) and tugboat USS Hoga (YT-146). The museum is the only place other than Honolulu, Hawaii, to have two naval vessels that bookend World War II. Hoga is the…
Argenta Drug Store
Built in 1887, the Argenta Drug Store is located in the Argenta Arts District and is the oldest continuously operating pharmacy west of the Mississippi River. It is housed in the oldest brick building in North Little Rock. Until 2006, a vintage classic Coca-Cola ad was painted on the 4th Street side of the building,…
Trail of Tears
Seven interpretative panels commemorate the Cherokee Trail of Tears and similar forced migrations by the other Four Civilized Tribes. This is located in the immedate vicinity of a large number of north-south migration routes and east-west water migration routes for the Cherokee and other southeastern tribes during the 1830s and 1840s. Free and open to…