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McArthur Park contains the McArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, which preserves the contributions of all Arkansas men and women who served in the armed forces.
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Little Rock is dotted with streets, buildings and a museum named for a man who claimed Virginia rather than Arkansas as his birthplace.
Douglas McArthur, one of five men to ever reach the rank of five-star General, was actually born in Arkansas in an area just south of the old State Capitol. His father, Arthur MacArthur, a lifetime soldier and a Civil War veteran, was assigned to the Little Rock Arsenal after the war.
The Arsenal, built in 1840 to protect the state capitol from American Indians, is one of the oldest surviving structures in the state. Its construction nearly set off rioting in the city because it was built on the site of the original gentlemen’s race track and jockey club.
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