MAG America The Beautiful Quarters SET # 1
2010 S CLAD HOT SPRINGS

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Hot Springs National Park Information

Utilized for centuries by Native Americans who called it the ‘Valley of the Vapors’, the area received little attention for years even after being ‘discovered’ by the explorer Hernando DeSoto in the 1500’s.

Both France and Spain claimed ownership of the area at one time or another until France ceded the land to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Over the next few decades, the Hot Springs area slowly gained in popularity to the point that the Arkansas Territorial Legislature requested that the US government set aside the land as a reservation to help protect it.