The Fort Smith Museum of History will hold its fifth year of summer children's programming beginning June 5. This year's ...

Every city needs its memoirists. Our houses may outlive us, but their stories will be forgotten if not recorded. In Fort Smith, Jim Kreuz and John Lehnen have stepped up to document more than 200 ...

Arkansas had a long history before 1836 though ... which included Arkansas. Fort Smith started in 1817 when the U.S. military established a western frontier post along the banks of the Arkansas ...

The Fort Smith National Historic Site had 123,229 visitors in ... covers Bentonville and Benton County news for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He has spent most of his life in Arkansas ...

But no, racism triumphed over patriotism and common decency during a meeting of the Arkansas History Commission today. A divided commission ultimately rejected the city of Fort Smith’s request ...

Baseball has a long history in Fort Smith. The city's first pro team, the Fort Smith Indians, played in the Southwestern League in 1887, according to the Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia.

Turning to the First Communicants who would be receiving Jesus that day, he said this would be a day they would never forget.

Members of the Fort Smith Museum of History are working to save artifacts from the second oldest building in downtown Fort Smith before it is demolished. "This is not the first time that this ...