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One more time this year and you could be there, Wednesday, July 4, 2018, the Declaration of Independence will be read from the balcony of the 1874 Courthouse in Historic Washington State Park, Arkansas. You can be there to witness it and sign it. How cool is that!

What an amazing opportunity, On June 30 and July 4, 2018, the Declaration of Independence will be read from the balcony of the 1874 Courthouse in Historic Washington State Park, Arkansas. You can be there to witness it and sign it. How cool is that!

Make plans to enjoy two nights of William Shakespeare's greatest plays. "Macbeth" and "The Taming of the Shrew" performed by the American Shakespeare Center 2017/18 Wicked Folly Tour at Historic Washington State Park March 2 and March 3. Performed in the unique the way audiences would have enjoyed these plays during Shakespearean time.

Valentine's Day will be here before you know it. This year the most romantic day of the year is on Wednesday, Feb. 14, but you don't have to wait until then to take your sweetheart out for a special evening.

Join the staff of Historic Washington State Park for its 31st Annual Christmas and Candlelight which will be held December 2 and 9, 2017.

On Saturday, September 3, 2016 the Hope-Hempstead County Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Old Washington Farmer’s Market and Historic Washington State Park will host an official watermelon weigh-off site for the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth in Washington, Ark.

One of the best festivals in the area, the 48th Annual Jonquil Festival, is slated for March 18-20, 2016 in old Washington State Park, Ark.

The town that became the Confederate State Capitol during the Civil War, now known as Historic Washington State Park, will be hosting Southwest Arkansas’s annual Civil War weekend on November 7- 8.

Two Civil War sesquicentennial markers will be unveiled and dedicated during the annual Civil War weekend at Historic Washington State Park on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015. The first will be at 10AM at the Old Washington Cemetery north of Washington on US Highway 278. The second will be at 11AM at the 1836 Courthouse at Historic Washington State Park.

The annual summer concert series Music in the Park comes to an end at Historic Old Washington State Park on Saturday, August 15 at 7:30 p.m. with the Jason Helms Band.

Historic Washington State Park announces the annual summer concert series “Music in the Park” with the theme “Country Nights.” A free concert will be held on the third Saturday of June, July, and August and is open to the public.

The 9th Annual Red River Heritage Symposium will take place on Saturday, July 25, at Historic Washington State Park. The conference topics will focus on the theme “The World Turned Upside Down” in regard to the impact of the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Great Bend Region of the Red River. The event will take place at the 1914 Schoolhouse Auditorium of Historic Washington State Pa