1819 — The Arkansas Territory was created by an act of Congress and signed into law on this day by President James Monroe. The act split Arkansas off from the Missouri Territory, creating the state’s northern boundary and the line of the Missouri Compromise.

An early map showing the Fulbright Expressway. By 1982, when the Arkansas State Highway Commission published this map, the Fulbright Expressway around the west side of Fayetteville was complete, the only hint of what would one day become Interstate 540. Although the addition of the interstate is the biggest difference between this map and present-day … More State Highway Map – 1982

 1921 — Rotary Club No. 829 was organized in Fayetteville on this date with Henry D. Tovey serving as the first president.1955 — Louis Armstrong, the famed jazz trumpeter, first played at the University of Arkansas Fieldhouse on this day. Two years later at the height of the Little Rock Central High crisis, the UA … More March 1