Officials with the U.S. Marshals Museum in Fort Smith announced a $5 million gift Thursday, a week prior to the museum’s planned groundbreaking Sept. 24
Jim Dunn, president and CEO of the museum, said the pledged anonymous gift is the museum’s largest to date and “provides us a great deal of momentum in our fundraising efforts.”
Officials said in March that the museum board had raised about $14 million of the estimated $50 million needed to build the 52,260-square-foot museum on 16 acres overlooking the Arkansas River.