06/08/2026
On August 11th, Hot Springs will celebrate 150 years! 🥂🎂 Join us in celebrating our sesquicentennial on Tuesday, August 11 with a 150th Birthday Gala, presented by Oaklawn, at the Hot Springs Convention Center. Proceeds will be given to the Garland County Historical Society.
Guests in attendance will receive a special commemorative coin honoring the 150th anniversary. The Birthday Gala will feature a premier cocktail reception, an elegant seated dinner, celebrity guest speakers, live entertainment and a ceremonial cake cutting.
🎟 Tickets for tables seating eight are available now at hotsprings.org/events/hot-springs-150th-birthday-gala/
“Although our city’s history goes back hundreds of years to the time when Indigenous people gathered around the thermal springs in The Valley of the Vapors, the town of Hot Springs was formally incorporated with a formal government, a mayor, aldermen, city ordinances and police and fire departments on August 11, 1876,” Mayor Pat McCabe said in announcing plans for the birthday gala.
"The Garland County Historical Society is very grateful to be the beneficiary of this fundraiser,” Liz Robbins, executive director of the Historical Society, said. “The funds raised will help us preserve Hot Springs history and make its pictures and stories easily accessible to people now and in the future. This is a great way to celebrate our history, especially as we commemorate our city’s 150th birthday."
