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5 unusual facts about Eureka Springs


LGBT rights in Arkansas

The small town of Eureka Springs in Carroll County is the only incorporated place in Arkansas to allow domestic partnerships (since 2007) and healthcare coverage for domestic partners of city workers (since 2011).

On July 2, 2013, 11 same-sex couples, some of whom had married in Iowa and some of whom were registered as domestic partners in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, along with two of their children, filed a lawsuit, Wright v. Arkansas, in Pulaski County Circuit Court challenging the state constitution's definition of marriage and its denial of recognition to same-sex unions established in other jurisdictions.

Places that have decriminalized non-medical cannabis in the United States

On November 7, 2006, Eureka Springs, Arkansas passed "Cannabis as Low Police Priority" Initiative by 62-38 percent.

Samuel B. Maxey

He died in 1895 at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where he had gone for treatment of an intestinal problem.

XENT-AM

Baker was a notorious cancer quack, operating clinics in Muscatine and Eureka Springs, Arkansas, that were heavily promoted over KTNT and then XENT.


Crescent Dragonwagon

Dragonwagon and her late husband, Ned Shank, owned Dairy Hollow House, a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark Mountain community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Mystic Caverns and Crystal Dome

Mystic Caverns, which has operated commercially since the late 1920s, is older than any other commercially operated cave in Arkansas, with the exception of Onyx Cave in Eureka Springs, and perhaps nearby Diamond Cave in Jasper, which has been toured since 1925.


see also

Clear Spring High School

Clear Spring School, the high school portion of Clear Spring School in Eureka Springs, Arkansas

KBBL

KXNW, a television station (channel 34) licensed to serve Eureka Springs, Arkansas, United States, which used the call sign KBBL-TV from July 2006 to September 2006

KPBI

KXNW, a television station (channel 34) licensed to serve Eureka Springs, Arkansas, which held the call sign KPBI from 2006 to 2012