The Capitol Building houses the bicameral Arkansas General Assembly and is the seat of the state government.
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About Arkansas
Arkansas is nicknamed the Natural State, a landlocked state in the South Central region of the US.
Arkansas borders six other states. Missouri to the north, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma in the west.
The Mississippi River forms the state borders to Tennessee and Mississippi in the east.
History
Woodland people and Mississippians inhabited the river valleys of what is now Arkansas for thousands of years. Their descendants were among the first to encounter European explorers and colonists in the sixteenth century.
Arkansas Post was the first European settlement in the lower Mississippi River Valley and present-day Arkansas, established in 1686 as a French trading post on the banks of the lower Arkansas River.
The United States acquired the area of Arkansas from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The trading town of Arkansas Post became the first capital of the Arkansas Territory in 1819, but the capital was moved to Little Rock in the center of the state. Arkansas became a state on 15 June 1836; it was the 25th state to join the union.
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