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The Bean Cemetery is a historic African American cemetery in
Lincoln, Arkansas Lincoln is a city in Washington County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,249 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Northwest Arkansas metro area. History Establishment The area around Lincoln first saw white settlement in the late ...
. It is located on the east side of the city, on the north side of United States Route 62 just west of Meade Avenue, north of a small roadside picnic area that was once part of the property.


Description of the property

The cemetery occupies a roughly
trapezoid A quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides is called a trapezoid () in American and Canadian English. In British and other forms of English, it is called a trapezium (). A trapezoid is necessarily a convex quadrilateral in Eu ...
al plot of . Its oldest dated burial is to 1874, although there may be older unmarked or illegible burials. The cemetery is the best-preserved remnant of 19th-century African-American communities that dotted the region in the post-
Civil War A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
era. Bean Cemetery contains 251 known burials and remains active. The application for the National Register of Historic Places states that the oldest death date is 1874. The site was associated with the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and School. Those buildings were demolished, and the site is now a roadside picnic area. The cemetery was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1994.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington Coun ...


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* {{National Register of Historic Places Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Protected areas of Washington County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Arkansas African-American cemeteries in Arkansas 1874 establishments in Arkansas Buildings and structures completed in 1874 Cemeteries established in the 1870s