Also atop Petit Jean is the Museum of Automobiles , which displays a collection of fifty regularly rotated vintage vehicles, loaned to the museum from across the United States, dating from During the summer, park interpreters provide guided hikes, nature talks, and workshops, plus evening programs at the outdoor amphitheater. Honor or memorial gifts are an everlasting way to pay tribute to someone who has touched your life.
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Benefiting from the offers of cheap railroad land, a German -American Lutheran colony called Wittenberg arose on the mountain in the mids, and Petit Jean claimed a hundred family farms by For perhaps seventy-five years, small farm agriculture and orchards flourished on Petit Jean Mountain.
Hardison had bigger ideas still and, the next year, influenced Congressman Henderson Madison Jacoway to introduce House Resolution in the U. Depopulation during the Great Depression and World War II struck hard at the mountain community, but as farming diminished, new residents and recreation enthusiasts took up the slack.
The Civilian Conservation Corps —constructed park infrastructure drew increasing numbers of visitors, and various commercial enterprises blossomed. She spent the rest of her life and wrote the last of her many books while living on Petit Jean Mountain. That same year, wealthy New Yorker Winthrop Rockefeller came to the mountain and, with a worn-out cotton plantation as its core, built Winrock Farms, a showplace cattle operation featuring the Santa Gertrudis breed.
Rockefeller later constructed the Museum of Automobiles on Petit Jean to house his antique car collection, and this facility later became part of the state park. In the twenty-first century, Petit Jean Mountain is still an area of striking natural beauty and the home of a robust community of people engaged in many endeavors. The population includes significant numbers of retired people, as well as businessmen, farmers, cattlemen, and recreation workers.
For additional information: Arkansas Archeological Survey. Rock Art in Arkansas. Popular Series No. Fayetteville: Arkansas Archeological Survey, Chandler, Angela. George Reynolds Collection. Hardison, T. Little Rock: Democrat Publishing Company, Turner, Marguerite. Morrilton: Hurley Publishing Company, Honor or memorial gifts are an everlasting way to pay tribute to someone who has touched your life.
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