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". Nickname: The City of Roses Location in Arkansas Founded Incorporated 1821 1831  County Pulaski County Mayor Jim Dailey Area  - Total  - Water 302. ...

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.

The cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places is the USAs official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. ...

Some of the notables buried at Mount Holly are:

• 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 buried there, marked by extremely modest gravestones. Colonel Sanford C. Sandy Faulkner (1806-1874) was a teller of tall tales, fiddle player, and composer of the popular fiddle tune The Arkansas Traveller which was the State song of Arkansas from 1949-1963. ... The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is a daily newspaper published in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... Photograph of Ross John Ross John Ross (October 3, 1790 - August 1, 1866), also known as Kooweskoowe - the egret, was a leader of the Cherokee Native American tribe. ... John Gould Fletcher (January 3, 1886 - May 20, 1950) was a Pulitzer Prize winning Imagist poet and author. ... Motto: Deo Vindice (Latin: Under God our Vindicator) Anthem: God Save the South (unofficial) Dixie (popular) Capital Montgomery, Alabama February 4, 1861–May 29, 1861 Richmond, Virginia May 29, 1861–April 9, 1865 Danville, Virginia April 3–April 10, 1865 Largest city New Orleans February 4, 1861 until captured May... The word slaves has several meanings and usages: People who are owned by others, and live to serve them without pay. ...

Every year in October several drama students from Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School each select 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 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. Drama is a term generally used to refer to a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. ... Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School is a magnet school in Little Rock, Arkansas that concentrates heavily on science and the arts. ... A jack-o-lantern Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31, usually by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting candy. ...

External links

• Not Quite Westminster Abbey
• Images of Mount Holly Cemetery
• Walking With The Dead (about.com article on Mount Holly Cemetery)