Mount Holly Cemetery
A cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas, Mount Holly Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Cemetery in Little Rock; research record. It sits in the archive under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.
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Is Mount Holly Cemetery haunted?
The record holds 1 claim, 1 legend — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed documented legend. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
Mount Holly is the Westminster of Arkansas — the four square blocks Beebe and Ashley deeded to Little Rock in 1843, the cemetery that holds eleven governors, thirteen supreme court justices, four Confederate generals, twenty-two mayors, and Quatie — Elizabeth Ross, the Cherokee chief's wife who died on the Trail of Tears water route in 1839 and was reinterred here.
The cemetery is the state's whole memory in four blocks — slaves and senators in the same ground, David O. Dodd the seventeen-year-old Boy Martyr of the Confederacy, the Pulitzer winners and the farmers, the Revolution's veterans beside the Gulf War's. The bell house and the native stone walls keep the park the city made of its dead; every Arkansas story has an ending at Mount Holly.
The file keeps Mount Holly: the 1843 deed, the Trail of Tears grave, the governors and generals, and the Westminster of Arkansas in four blocks.
Mount Holly is the archive's Little Rock file — the cemetery that holds the whole state's memory.
Why this file matters
Mount Holly is the archive's Little Rock file — the 1843 cemetery, Quatie's grave, and the state's dead.
A city cemetery keeps the whole state — the file's suggestion being that Mount Holly's hold is the compression: the four blocks that contain the governors and the slave and the Cherokee wife and the boy spy, all of Arkansas in one ground.
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".
Mount Holly CemeteryThe record of claims
Little Rock tourism recounts shadow figures at the cemetery. Mount Holly Cemetery's dead are the site's permanent residents; the reports are how the living say they keep noticing. 'Four of Little Rock’s Most Haunted Places' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.
Little Rock tourism recounts shadow figures at the cemetery. Cemeteries keep their stories in the stones; Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas has its version filed among them. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Four of Little Rock’s Most Haunted Places' keep the claim in circulation. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.
Sources on file
- 01Four of Little Rock’s Most Haunted PlacesLittle Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
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