Two years after Bentonville Arkansas received statehood in 1836, thousands of Cherokee people from Georgia passed through Benton County as part of the Trail of Tears route to the Indian Territory in what is Oklahoma.
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16 Facts About Bentonville Arkansas
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Bentonville Arkansas was a staging point for the Confederate army prior to the Battle of Pea Ridge, fought about 12 miles northeast of town, and the town saw a brief skirmish just prior to the battle.
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Late twentieth and early twenty-first century has seen a dramatic reduction in the manufacturing sector in Bentonville Arkansas, corresponding with an increase in tourism and entertainment focused on the natural setting and outdoor opportunities of the area as well as the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened in 2011.
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The Metropolitan Statistical Area does not consist of the usual principal-city-with-suburbs morphology; instead Bentonville Arkansas is bordered to the east by Rogers, the north by Bella Vista, and the west by Centerton.
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The Northwest Arkansas National Airport is located to the southwest of Bentonville and is used to connect all of the northwest Arkansas region to the rest of the nation.
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For more than the last decade, Northwest Bentonville Arkansas has been one of the fastest-growing regions in the United States.
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Bentonville Arkansas is home to a large Hispanic immigrant community, consisting of Mexicans and nationalities from Central America such as El Salvador and Honduras, who came to find blue-collar jobs in the area's booming economy during the 1990s and 2000s.
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Northwest Bentonville Arkansas economy was historically based upon agriculture and poultry.
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In 2017 Walmart announced their intention to construct a new central headquarters in Bentonville Arkansas, consolidating many of their employees to a more centralized campus.
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Bentonville Arkansas is home to a growing entrepreneurial scene, with co-working spaces and startup incubators being added quickly over the last 5 years.
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Symbolic of Bentonville Arkansas's complex culture was a cricket game played between PepsiCo and Walmart, spectated by their respective chief executives Indra Nooyi and Doug McMillon, chronicled in an article in The Wall Street Journal describing the complex Bentonville Arkansas culture.
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Bentonville Arkansas contains over 30 listings on the National Register of Historic Places, the official federal list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation.
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Trails in Bentonville Arkansas vary from small fitness trails to long mountain bike trails to the regional Razorback Greenway depending upon topography, intended use and city planning.
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Bentonville Arkansas is well regarded as a mountain biking destination providing more than 28 miles of award-winning mountain bike trails, earning a Silver Ride Center designation from the International Mountain Bicycling Association and hosting multiple cycling events throughout the year.
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Bentonville Arkansas has been recognized as a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists since 2012.
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City of Bentonville Arkansas owns and operates a municipal water system that provides services to industrial, commercial and residential customers.
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