Stars and Diamonds Shine on the State Flag of Arkansas
Posted in History on Mar 26th, 2007
On June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the twenty-fifth state in the United States of America, but the state didn’t have a flag until national events overtook them in the form of the massive dreadnought, the
USS Arkansas (BB-33).
When the ship was commissioned in 1912, the ladies of the Pine Bluff Chapter of the Daughters of the [...]