MPS Canehill MRA Address Lincoln, AR 72744, USA Added to NRHP 17 November 1982 | NRHP Reference # 82000941 Area 2 ha | |
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Similar Luginbuel Funeral Home, Farmington Cemetery, Fayetteville National Cemetery, Beatty Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery | ||
The Cane Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in Canehill, Arkansas. It is located just south of Washington County Route 13 and west of Arkansas Highway 45.
History
The Cane Hill area was settled in the late 1820s. The cemetery contains the graves of two of its first settlers, Thomas Garvin (d. 1834) and Thomas Buchanan (d. 1836), and is the site of the community's first church and schoolhouse. The Cane Hill area was the site of the Battle of Cane Hill, a running battle fought a few days before the Battle of Prairie Grove in November 1862. James G. Blunt and his Union troops captured approximately 2,000 Confederate soldiers in November 1862. The cemetery contains many Civil War-era burials.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.