Original Chinese Cemetery

Planters tried Chinese labor after the Civil War as an alternative to freed people. The experiment failed, but many workers stayed and opened groceries in Black neighborhoods, which gave customers relief from plantation commissaries and gave the merchants a living. Family members followed, and the Delta's Chinese population grew from 183 in 1900 to 743 in 1940. Living between Black and white neighbors, many were socially isolated. In 1880 Washington County counted 28 Chinese residents; by 1960 it counted 264.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 1.9 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Winterville Mounds — 7.0 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 7.7 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.
• Lakeport Plantation — 10 mi
  Arkansas's grandest surviving Greek Revival plantation house, built about 1858 by a planter who held 155 enslaved people in 1860, now an Arkansas State University museum.

More markers nearby

• Little Italy (La Piccolo Italia) — 0.5 mi
• Holt Collier — 0.5 mi
• Pvt. Robert T. (Bobby) Henry — 0.8 mi
• Greenville's Writers — 1.8 mi