With our short winter season, it makes sense to have a house that turns into an open-shade house for the long warm season. With so many options for extending the season, there is no reason a little cold snap here and there should deter us Texas gardeners from growing on right through the winter.
El Dorado is a city in and the county seat of Union County, Arkansas, USA. According to estimates, the 2012 census, the population of the city is 18,491, which represents a decline of 2.1 percent from the 2010 tabulation of 18,884. El Dorado is headquarters of the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission as well as Murphy Oil, Murphy USA, Deltic Timber Corporation, and the Lion Oil Refinery.
El Dorado, on its original site south of the present El Dorado, was first the county seat of Hunter county and later, upon its organization, of Irving county. The county, as it were, having slipped from under it, the location of the town remaining the same At this time Butler county extended only so far south as the fifth standard parallel. Chelsea was named as the county seat of Butler county by common consent of the settlers. This was upon the organization of the county in 1859, Chelsea remaining the county seat until 1864, after the county had been changed to its present boundaries. On May 21, 1864, an election was held, and El Dorado was selected as the county seat - (this was the old town on the Clarence King farm).