Mount Zion Cemetery is a historic cemetery in
Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
Walnut Ridge is a city in and the county seat of Lawrence County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 5,098 at the United States Census's 2019 estimate. Walnut Ridge lies immediately north of Hoxie. The two towns form a contiguous urban ...
, located north of the junction of Fulbright Avenue and Mills Street near the entrance to
Williams Baptist University
Williams Baptist University is a private Baptist university in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. Founded in 1941, this institution began as a two-year school. It began granting bachelor's degrees in 1984 and master's degrees in 2017. The name of the scho ...
. The earliest confirmed burial dates to 1875, and approximately 360 burials are known to have occurred in the cemetery since then, with most taking place in the late 1800s and early 1900s. A church and school were once located adjacent to the cemetery, but both are no longer extant. The
Walnut Ridge Army Airfield was constructed near the cemetery during World War II. After a cycle of neglect and restoration in the 1970s and 1980s, the cemetery was thereafter maintained by the municipality of
College City until College City's 2017 consolidation with Walnut Ridge.
The cemetery was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2021.
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{{National Register of Historic Places
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Lawrence County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence County, Arkansas
Cemeteries established in the 1870s