![]() ![]() WHEREAS: Governor Sanders’ “Capital for a Day” program highlights great cities around Arkansas like Hope and brings senior state government officials into town to meet with their local counterparts and to ensure that adequate services are provided to all Arkansans and ![]() It still serves as a functioning AMTRAK stop WHEREAS: Visitors to Hope can also explore the Hope Visitor Center and Museum, located in the old Missouri-Pacific Railroad and featuring local history and railroad artifacts. The city is now home to the President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site, a house on South Hervey Street where the former president lived until the age of four ![]() President Bill Clinton and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, both of whom went on to national prominence. WHEREAS: Hope is the birthplace of former Arkansas Governor and U.S. The Hope Chamber of Commerce continues to sponsor the annual Watermelon Festival every year Gibson started a watermelon-growing contest to promote the area. WHEREAS: The town became famous for its watermelons in the 1920s when local John S. WHEREAS: Hope was settled in 1852 and named after the daughter of James Loughborough, the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Land Commissioner. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS COME – GREETINGS: ![]()
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