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The Old Rondo Cemetery is located at the junction of McClure Road (County Road 125) and Cobb Lane in Rondo, a small community in Miller County just northeast of
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. The cemetery is best known for the burial site at its center, where the remains of 85
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soldiers are buried. In 1862, during the
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, Confederate troops stationed at Rondo were swept up in a
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epidemic. The 19th Texas Infantry Regiment had seven companies stationed at Rondo, and most of the dead came from its ranks. The 85 dead were disinterred from their original graves and reburied in the Rondo Cemetery after the war. In 1931 the Texarkana chapter of the
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received federal funding for the purchase of the plot and the placement of memorial markers. There are 17 markers, one for every five of the unknown soldiers, as well as a sandstone monument placed in 1962 and a historical marker placed in the 1990s on the plot, which is set off from the rest of the cemetery by a low concrete boundary wall. The Confederate section of the cemetery was listed on the
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Miller County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Miller County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Miller County, Arkan ...


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* {{National Register of Historic Places Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Buildings and structures completed in 1862 Buildings and structures in Miller County, Arkansas 1862 establishments in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Miller County, Arkansas Cemeteries established in the 1860s