After seventeen years as a territory, on June 15, 1836, Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the twenty-fifth state. In 1905 the Arkansas History Commission was established by the Arkansas General Assembly to serve as the state’s official archives. Renamed the Arkansas State Archives in 2016, this institution continues to gather and preserve many of Arkansas’s valuable government records.
Browse the State government records Collections:
Arkansas and Missouri Union Army muster rolls, 1863-1864
Arkansas Civil Appointment records, 1819-1958
Arkansas General Assembly composite images, 1866-2011
Arkansas Secession Ordinance, 1861 May 6
Arkansas Territory General Assembly records, 1819-1820; 1835
Arkansas Territory official correspondence, 1825-1828
Brooks-Baxter War telegrams, 1874
Civil War Maimed Soldiers lists, 1867
Independence County records, 1825-1852
L.C. Gulley collection, 1819-1898
Medical Board of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate States Army records, 1862-1865
Military Board of Arkansas records, 1861-1865