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The Eureka Springs Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at the junction of County Road 205 and
United States Route 62 U.S. Route 62 or U.S. Highway 62 (US 62) is an east–west United States Highway in the southern and northeastern United States. It runs from the Mexican border at El Paso, Texas, to Niagara Falls, New York, near the Canadian bo ...
in
Eureka Springs, Arkansas Eureka Springs is a city in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States, and one of two county seats for the county. It is located in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas, near the border with Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the city popula ...
. It is in size, and contains an unusual variation of urban and rural layout and burial practices. It was founded in 1889 by the local chapter of the
International Order of Odd Fellows The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political, non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Evolving from the Odd Fellows, Order ...
(IOOF), which managed it until 1965, when it was acquired by the city. The land was originally owned by the Lamar family, which used it as a family cemetery at least as early as 1880. 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 2018. It is the resting place of US Congressman
Claude A. Fuller Claude Albert Fuller (January 20, 1876 – January 8, 1968) — was an American lawyer, farmer, member of Arkansas State House of Representatives from 1903 to 1905, and of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 3rd District of Arkansas from 1 ...
(1876–1968).


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Carroll County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Carroll County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, A ...


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* {{National Register of Historic Places Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Buildings and structures in Carroll County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Arkansas Odd Fellows cemeteries in the United States Cemeteries established in the 1880s 1889 establishments in Arkansas