Mount Holly Cemetery

Mount Holly began in 1843 as a settlement of Scotch Presbyterians and grew into an educational center, with two academies that drew more than 200 students a year. The cemetery beside it is dated 1855 by a volunteer survey, which lists Confederate officers and privates among the graves. One is Dr. Hamilton Posey Smead, colonel of the 19th Arkansas Infantry, who had served in the Georgia senate in 1845 and 1846; his headstone could not be found in 1998. Another veteran, James McCall, belonged to the Camp of Confederate Veterans organized at El Dorado in 1900.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources — 14 mi
  A free state museum on the Smackover field, where a 112-foot derrick, a rebuilt 1920s boomtown street and working pumps tell how oil and bromine remade south Arkansas.
• Logoly State Park — 14 mi
  Arkansas's first environmental education state park, built on the Magnesia Springs resort and a Boy Scout camp, with about 200 acres of mature forest kept as a natural area.
• Magnolia Square and the Columbia County Courthouse — 17 mi
  The 1906 courthouse and square at the center of a town founded in 1853, where oil came in 1922, Southern Arkansas University grew from a farm school, and Jordan Jameson was burned to death in 1919.
• El Dorado Commercial Historic District — 18 mi
  The courthouse square and brick blocks of a town that jumped from 4,000 people to nearly 30,000 after the 1921 Busey well, listed on the National Register in 2003.

More markers nearby

• Calhoun Pioneer Settlement — 13 mi
• General John Porter McCown — 17 mi
• Union County Second Court House — 18 mi
• Lamartine Pioneer Settlement — 21 mi