Galla Rock (also known as “Galley Rock”) is an

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in Wilson Township, southern Pope County,

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, United States. The community is on Arkansas Route 105 just north of the

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and the Pope-

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county line.

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is approximately 4.5 miles to the north along Route 105.''Arkansas Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 2004, 2nd edition, p. 40, It was a thriving city in late 1700 and early 1800s, but is now reduced to a “city of the dead” according to an information plaque at the Galla Rock cemetery.

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