Pulaski County County Government

Pulaski County was one of Arkansas Territory's original counties, created on December 15, 1818, and named for Count Casimir Pulaski, who died at Savannah in 1779. Its first seat, from 1820, was Cadron, a fur-trading post now in Faulkner County, before the seat moved to Little Rock in 1821. County government worked from the Old State House until 1883, when the state needed the whole building, and the county courthouse was completed in 1889. The Quapaw were the dominant people when the county was created, and in 1860 it held 3,505 enslaved people, nearly thirty percent of its residents.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State House Museum — 0.2 mi
  The oldest standing state capitol west of the Mississippi, where lawmakers met from 1836, enslaved people were auctioned in the east wing and Arkansas voted to secede.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 0.5 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 0.8 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.
• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 1.5 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.

More markers nearby

• Huntersville — 0.4 mi
• BISHOP CHARLES HARRISON MASON — 0.5 mi
• C.S.S. Pontchartrain — 0.5 mi
• The Arsenal Crisis — 0.9 mi