The Palarm Bayou Pioneer Cemetery is a historic cemetery in a rural-suburban area of northern
Pulaski County, Arkansas
Pulaski County is located in the U.S. state of Arkansas with a population of 399,125, making it the most populous county in Arkansas. The county is included in the Little Rock–North Little Rock– Conway metropolitan area. Its county seat is L ...
. It is located northwest of
Maumelle
Maumelle is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 19,251. The city is located northwest of Little Rock, bordering the opposite shore of the Arkansas River and is part of the Little Ro ...
, between the Arkansas River Trail (
Arkansas Highway 365) and Palarm Creek, on a rise that is now part of the gated Mountain Crest residential subdivision. The small cemetery, with just ten marked graves, stands at the top of a rise north of Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church. Nine of the graves are surrounded by a low stone wall, while one is set outside that enclosure, surrounded by a wrought iron fence. The oldest of the marked graves is that of Daniel Wilson, who died in 1837. The cemetery is probably one of the county's oldest.
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 v ...
in 2005.
It contains the graves of early pioneer families; Wilson, Danley, and Boyle. The cemetery is severely neglected with broken headstones and overgrowth of the surrounding woodlands.
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Cemeteries in Pulaski County, Arkansas
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, Arkansas
Cemeteries established in the 1830s