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Mount Holly Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in the Quapaw Quarter area of downtown Little Rock in the U.S. state of Arkansas, and is the burial place for numerous Arkansans of note. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and has been nicknamed "The Westminster Abbey of Arkansas".




Major events






= "Tales of the Crypt"

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Every year in October several drama students from Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School are each given a person buried in the cemetery to research. They then prepare short monologues or dialogues, complete with period costumes, to be performed in front of the researched person's grave. Audiences are led through the cemetery from grave to grave by guides with candles. The event is called "Tales of the Crypt". Although it takes place around the same time as the American holiday Halloween, the event is meant to be historic rather than spooky.




= 2016 vandalism

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The cemetery experienced heavy vandalism in the overnight hours of April 20, 2016. Numerous headstones were toppled and smashed, including the well-known statues of a mourner next to statues of two little girls.




Notable burials


The cemetery is the burial place for ten former Arkansas governors, six United States senators, 14 Arkansas Supreme Court justices, 21 Little Rock mayors, numerous Arkansas literary figures, Confederate generals, and other worthies. There are also several slaves who are buried there, marked by modest gravestones.

Samuel Adams (1805–1850), Arkansas Governor
Dale Alford (1916–2000), U.S. Representative (1959–63) and ophthalmologist
Chester Ashley (1791–1848), US Senator
W. Jasper Blackburn (1820–1899), US Congressman
Solon Borland (1811–1864), physician and US Senator
Elias Nelson Conway (1812–1892), Arkansas Governor
Jeff Davis (1862–1913), Arkansas Governor
David Owen Dodd (1846–1864), boy martyr of the Confederacy
James Philip Eagle (1837–1904), Arkansas Governor
James Fleming Fagan (1828–1893), Confederate Major General
Sandford C. Faulkner (1803–1874), the original 'Arkansas Traveller'
John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, with his wife, noted children's book author Charlie May Simon (1897–1977)
Thomas Fletcher (1817–1880), acting governor of Arkansas (1862)
William Savin Fulton (1795–1844), U.S. senator from Arkansas (1836–1844)
Augustus Hill Garland (1876–1907), Arkansas Governor
John N. Heiskell (1872–1972), US Senator and editor of the Arkansas Gazette
Simon Pollard Hughes Jr. (1830–1906), Arkansas Governor
George Izard (1776–1828), governor of Arkansas Territory from 1825 to 1828
Robert Ward Johnson (1814–1879), C.S. senator from Arkansas (1862–1865)
George R. Mann (1856–1939), architect
William Read Miller (1823–1887) Arkansas Governor
Allison Nelson (1822–1862), politician and Confederate Brigadier General
Thomas Willoughby Newton (1804–1853) US Congressman
Elizabeth Quatie Brown Ross, wife of John Ross (Cherokee chief) (1791–1839), Cherokee figure
Albert Rust (1818–1870), US Congressman and Confederate Brigadier General (cenotaph)
Ambrose H. Sevier (1801–1848), U.S. senator from Arkansas (1836–1848)
Bernard Smith (1776–1835), US Congressman
David D. Terry (1881–1963), US Congressman
Cephas Washburn (1793–1860), missionary
Edward Washburn (1831–1860), artist
Frank D. White (1933–2003), governor of Arkansas from 1981 to 1983
William W. Wilshire (1830–1888), U.S. representative from 1873 to 1877; chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1868 to 1871
William E. Woodruff (1795–1885), founder of the Arkansas Gazette




See also


National Register of Historic Places listings in Little Rock, Arkansas




References






External links



Official
Official website
General information
Mount Holly Cemetery at Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
Mount Holly Cemetery at Find A Grave
Mount Holly Cemetery at The Political Graveyard

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