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Centerton was born January 8, 1900, incorporated September 16, 1914. Downtown Centerton is located four miles from the Walmart Home Office and four miles from their largest warehouse #6094. The city is also located just five miles from (XNA) the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. Bentonville touches Centerton on the city's east side. Centerton is located near the center of Benton County and that is why the city was named Centerton
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Taos Painters: Louis Benton Akin (1868-1913)
Louis Akin grew up in Portland, Oregon, the grandson of pioneers who had come to the West by way of the Oregon Trail. Akin studied art in New York with Merritt Chase and Frank Dumond before traveling to Arizona to paint the Hopi in 1903. The Hopi pieces were commercially successful and were reproduced as postcards and travel posters.
The appeal of Arizona had been its climate, which helped Akin to recover from tuberculosis, but the land grew on him so much, he spent most of the rest of his life there. He lived in Flagstaff, on the Hopi reservation in Oraibi and in the El Tovar Hotel on the south rim of the Grand Canyon while in Arizona, and was inducted into the Hopi's secret society and given the name
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