Akron Cemetery

	Akron Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Location in Arkansas Location in United States
Location	Approx. 2 mi. S of Newark on AR 122, near Newark, Arkansas
Coordinates	35°39′53″N 91°26′58″W / 35.66472°N 91.44944°W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1829
NRHP reference No.	02001072
Added to NRHP	October 4, 2002

The Akron Cemetery is a historic cemetery in rural southeastern Independence County, Arkansas. The 1-acre (0.40 ha) cemetery is located on the west side of Arkansas Highway 122, about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Newark, on top of a Native American mound. With its oldest recorded burial dating to 1829, it is possibly the oldest cemetery in the county, and is known to be the burial site of some of the Newark area's earliest settlers. It is all that survives of the community of Big Bottom, and early settlement that was renamed Akron in 1880, and was abandoned around 1940.^[2]

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Akron Cemetery". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-07-01.

External links

Akron Cemetery at Find a Grave

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Akron Cemetery". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-07-01.

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