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November 19, 1897
Robert Brownlee, the Scottish stonemason who helped build the first state house as well as many other historic landmarks in Pulaski County, died. Brownlee also helped create the monument to William Gilchrist, Grandmaster Mason of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas. The sixteen-foot gravestone sits on a nine-foot base and dominates the Masonic plot in Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock (Pulaski County).