Mount Holly Cemetery

Mount Holly Cemetery is the original cemetery in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas and is the resting place for numerous Arkansans of note. It has been nicknamed "The Westminster Abbey of Arkansas".

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The cemetery is the burial place for 10 former Governors of Arkansas, 6 United States Senators, 14 Arkansas Supreme Court Justices, 21 Little Rock Mayors, numerous Arkansas literary figures, Confederate Generals, and other worthies.

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The cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Some of the notables buried at Mount Holly are:

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• Sanford Faulkner - the original 'Arkansas Traveller'
• William E. Woodruff - founder of the Arkansas Gazette
• Quatie Ross - the wife of Cherokee Chief John Ross
• John Gould Fletcher - Pulitzer Prize winning poet
• David O. Dodd - boy martyr of the Confederacy

There are also several slaves who are barried there marked by extremely modest gravestones.

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Every year in October several drama students from Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School each select a person barried in the cemetary to research. They then prepare short monolouges or dialouges, complete with period costumes, to be preformed in front of the researched person's grave. Audeinces are lead through the cemetary from grave to grave by guides with candles. The event is called "Tales from 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.

Related Topics:
Drama - Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School - Halloween

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