Prairie Springs Cemetery
Burleson, Johnson County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Prairie Springs Cemetery Established 1857 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2004
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Established in 1857, Prairie Springs Cemetery is among the older burial grounds in Johnson County, dating to the years when north-central Texas was still a thinly settled agricultural frontier. Its founding just before the Civil War places it among the resting places of the region's earliest pioneer families. The Historic Texas Cemetery designation it received in 2004 marks its enduring role in local memory.
Why it matters
A cemetery this old is a rare surviving witness to antebellum settlement in the area, preserving the presence of pioneers whose lives left few other traces.
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