5-606: The Helena Confederate Cemetery is located in the southwest corner of the Maple Hill Cemetery on Holly Street in Helena, Arkansas . It is a small section of the larger cemetery, under one acre in size, and is marked by two significant memorials: the Confederate Memorial and the memorial to Confederate Army General Patrick Cleburne , whose burial here is the only known place associated with his life. The Cleburne memorial
10-438: Is a marble shaft 15 feet (4.6 m) in height, topped by an urn with flames coming from its top. The Confederate Memorial is a marble depiction of a soldier, mounted on a 30-foot (9.1 m) granite shaft, surrounded by pyramids of cannonballs and inverted cannons. The cemetery has more than 100 marked graves, 15 of which are unidentified Confederate dead, and 23 are of those killed in the 1863 Battle of Helena . The cemetery
15-571: The cemetery is the Coolidge Monument, placed by Henry P. Coolidge on the family plot, which is at the highest point of section 3; the monument is a granite column 21 feet (6.4 m) in height, with a life-size sculpture of Coolidge on top. Most of the cemetery (an area of 28.5 acres (11.5 ha) excluding the then-empty section 6) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Helena's Confederate Cemetery , located in
20-404: Was established in 1865, and is laid out in the rural cemetery style which was popular in the mid-19th century. It departs from the norms of this style in retaining a largely rectilinear layout despite having parklike features. The cemetery's entrance is through an elaborately-decorated wrought iron archway, whose posts were given in 1914, and whose arch was given in 1975. The largest monument in
25-490: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Maple Hill Cemetery (Helena-West Helena, Arkansas) Maple Hill Cemetery (also known as Evergreen Cemetery ) is located on Holly Street, north of the center of Helena, Arkansas . It is set on 37 acres (15 ha) of land on the east side of Crowley's Ridge , overlooking the Mississippi River , and is the city's largest cemetery. The cemetery
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