Centennial Boulder - Little Rock, Arkansas
Posted by: BruceS
N 34° 44.798 W 092° 17.414
15S E 564967 N 3845175
Granite boulder located on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock placed in commemoration of the states centennial.
Waymark Code: WM9A4P
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 07/20/2010
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Text on plaque:
This granite bolder was place here June 15, 1936 to commemorate the one hundredth year of Arkansas' statehood. The boulder weighs nearly twenty tons. It was brought from Granite Mountain, five miles south of this point and placed by the authority of Governor J. Marion Futrell, under the direction of George W. Donaghey, Chairman of the Capitol Arts Commission and the twenty-second Governor of Arkansas.
Constitutional Officers
Centennial Year 1936
J. Marion Futrell, Governor
Lee Cazort, Lieut. Governor & Pres. of Senate
Ed P. McDonald, Secretary of State
Earl Page, State Treasurer
Carl E. Bailey, Attorney General
Chas. E. Parker, Auditor of State
Geo. W. Neal, Commissioner of State Lands
Harve B. Thorne, Speaker of the House of Reps.
Chief Justice Charles E. Johnson
Associate Justices
Turner Butler, Frank G. Smith, Thos. H. Humphreys
Tom M. Mehaffy, Basil Baker, Edward L. McHaney