Nubbin Ridge Cemetery
Granbury, Hood County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Nubbin Ridge Cemetery Established 1878 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2003
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Nubbin Ridge Cemetery was established in 1878, in the years when farm and ranch families were settling the North Central Texas countryside around present-day Hood County. Rural burial grounds like this one anchored scattered communities, serving as gathering places and lasting records of the settlers who broke the land. Its designation as a Historic Texas Cemetery marks it as a keeper of that local heritage.
Why it matters
Small country cemeteries such as Nubbin Ridge preserve the names and memory of the frontier families who settled Texas in the decades after the Civil War.
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