Newlin Cemetery
Newlin, Hall County, Texas
Marker Inscription
NEWLIN CEMETERY ESTABLISHED 1904 HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY – 2009
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Newlin is a tiny farming community on the rolling plains of Hall County, in the Texas Panhandle country that opened to Anglo settlement only after the buffalo and the Comanche were gone. Its cemetery, laid out in 1904, gathered the pioneer families who broke this cotton-and-cattle land in the early twentieth century. In 2009 the State of Texas recognized it as a Historic Texas Cemetery, protecting it as a record of the people who settled here.
Why it matters
Rural cemeteries like Newlin are often the oldest surviving trace of a Panhandle settlement, preserving the names of the ordinary families who turned raw prairie into farmland.
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