Mount Holly Cemetery is the original cemetery in the Quapaw Quarter

Quapaw Quarter, Little Rock, Arkansas

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 area of downtown Little Rock, Arkansas

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, and is the resting place for numerous Arkansans of note. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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 and has been nicknamed "The Westminster Abbey of Arkansas".

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. Some of the notables buried at Mount Holly are:

• Dr. James A. Dibrell -- Founder, Dean, and Professor of the University of Arkansas Medical School from 1886 to 1904. President of the Arkansas State Medical Society. Vice President of the American Medical Association in 1902.
• Dale Alford
  Dale Alford
  Thomas Dale Alford, Sr. was an ophthalmologist and politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas who served as a conservative Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from Little Rock from 1959 to 1963....
  
   -- U.S. Representative from 1959-1963 and noted ophthalmologist
• David Owen Dodd
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  David Owen Dodd was an American 17 year-old who was tried, convicted and hanged as a Confederate spy in the American Civil War....
  
   - boy martyr of the Confederacy
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• Sanford Faulkner
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  Colonel Sanford C. 'Sandy' Faulkner was an American teller of tall tales, fiddle player, and composer of the popular fiddle tune "The Arkansas Traveler", which was the State song of Arkansas from 1949–1963....
  
   - the original 'Arkansas Traveller'
• John Gould Fletcher
  John Gould Fletcher
  John Gould Fletcher was an Imagist poet and author. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to a socially prominent family. After attending Phillips Academy, Andover Fletcher went on to Harvard University from 1903 to 1907, when he dropped out shortly after his father's death.Fletcher lived in...
  
   - Pulitzer Prize winning poet
• William Savin Fulton
  William Savin Fulton
  William Savin Fulton was an American lawyer and politician from Little Rock, Arkansas. He served as Governor of the Arkansas Territory and United States Senator for Arkansas....
  
   - Governor of Arkansas Territory 1835-1836, U.S. senator from Arkansas 1836-1844
• Quatie Ross - the wife of Cherokee Chief John Ross
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  John Ross , also known as Guwisguwi , was Principal Chief of the Cherokee Native American Nation from 1828–1866...
  
  
• William E. Woodruff - founder of the Arkansas Gazette
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There are also several slave

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s who are buried there, marked by extremely modest gravestones.

Every year in October several drama

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 students from Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School

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 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

Halloween

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, the event is meant to be historic rather than spooky.