March 22, 2009

Robert Brownlee, a skilled stonemason, moved to Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1837 when he learned of the need for masons to help complete construction of the new statehouse, now known as the Old State House. Brownlee worked on several state projects but also made his living by carving objects such as the monument shown here at the gravesite of William Gilchrist, Grandmaster Mason of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas, located in Little Rock’s Mount Holly Cemetery.