Beaudry, Arkansas

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History of Beaudry

You're Drinking Bronze-Age Rain RoadyGoat

Fill a cup from a Hot Springs fountain and you're sipping rain that fell before the pyramids were finished. Park scientists carbon-dated this water, and the answer stunned them: most of it is about four thousand four hundred years old. Here's the journey it took. Rain soaked into the Ouachita Mountains during the Bronze Age, then trickled down through cracks in the rock, one painfully slow inch at a time, sinking more than a mile underground. Down there the Earth's heat cooked it to a scald. Then, under pressure, it raced back to the surface in a fraction of the time it took to go down. So the water steaming out today began its trip when wooly mammoths were barely gone and Stonehenge was brand new. It's the oldest thing you'll ever taste.

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Hot Springs: The Town That Tells You Exactly What It Is RoadyGoat

1832

Here's a town that's exactly what it says on the label. Forty-seven natural thermal springs steam out of Hot Springs Mountain at a steady one hundred forty-three degrees, and people have been soaking in them for thousands of years. The water was considered so valuable that in eighteen thirty-two the United States set the whole area aside as a federal reservation, to keep it public. That was the very first federal land set-aside in American history, a full forty years before Yellowstone became the first national park. The site officially became Hot Springs National Park in nineteen twenty-one. Around it rose the grand bathhouses of Bathhouse Row, and the town earned a nickname that stuck: the American Spa. One million gallons of ancient hot water a day, all of it free to the public.

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Bathhouse Row and the Gangster Truce RoadyGoat

Hot Springs sits in a Ouachita Mountains valley fed by some forty-seven thermal springs, water that fell as rain millennia ago, sank thousands of feet, got superheated, and now surfaces near 143 degrees. The federal government moved to protect those springs unusually early: Congress set aside Hot Springs Reservation in 1832, making it the oldest land in what became the National Park System, decades before Yellowstone, though it wasn't formally renamed Hot Springs National Park until 1921. By the late 1800s grand bathhouses lined Bathhouse Row downtown, and visitors came from everywhere to soak. The same easygoing, look-the-other-way town also became a famous gangster getaway in the 1920s and '30s, neutral ground where mobsters from Chicago and New York mixed at the baths and the racetrack. Al Capone reportedly favored Suite 443 at the Arlington Hotel and sometimes booked the whole fourth floor. Spa town and outlaw hideout, soaking side by side.

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Bathhouse Row

1832

Eight ornate bathhouses along Central Avenue in Hot Springs, built between 1892 and 1923, forming the centerpiece of the oldest federal reserve in the United States.

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