Arkansas Ties ... A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That, and a Whole Lot of Arkansas

Governor's Mansion 1800 Center Street Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas c 1947 - 1950   The Governor's Mansion sits on the site of "Rosewoood," an 1840's estate.  The site was also the home to the Arkansas School for the Blind from 1869 - 1939.   From Bill Boggess: I found that the Governors Manson was built with some 300,000 bricks cleaned by prisoners from the old Blind school. Their history says the first brick three story building, built in 1869, was dedicated to Colonel Gray. Secondly, the Wright's Addition, to the west, was home for Senator Solon Borland and family 1854 till they moved to Princeton ca 1858 and he sold it to Dr Wright. (Dr Wright donated some $30,000 to the Baxter fund in the 1874 'Brooks-Baxter War'. ocation List