Photos provided by Arkansas State Parks, Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives, Library of Congress. Pictured above: 1874 Courthouse
Many Arkansans — OK, probably most of them — likely do not know that four separate locales have claimed the designation of state capital for the Natural State, and that is not counting the Old State House in Little Rock.
There is Little Rock, of course, current state capital, the state’s largest city and arguably still its cultural center. (The current capitol building, finished in 1915, replaced the Old State House, which had served as the seat of state government since 1836, when Arkansas was admitted as a state.)…