Historic Markers in Texas

George West, TX

Before the 1870s, children in Live Oak County learned in cabins, brush arbors, and dugouts from clergymen and ranch hands, until County Judge G.W. Jones launched community schools in 1876 at seven and a half cents a day per pupil. In time the county held forty-three of these tiny schools, and Oakville built the first free-school building in 1881. Waves of consolidation shrank that scattered patchwork down to just two schools serving the whole county by 1970.

Three Rivers, TX

Before the 1870s, children in Live Oak County learned from clergymen and ranch hands in cabins, brush arbors, and dugouts. County Judge G. W. Jones launched community schools in 1876 at seven and a half cents a day per student, and in time forty-three tiny schools dotted the county. Oakville built the first free-school building in 1881, and over the following century waves of consolidation reduced those scattered schoolhouses to just two districts by 1970.

Cayuga, TX

When Anderson County organized in 1846, the land west of Catfish Creek was thinly settled, and community life gathered around a few key figures. On his own land, Georgia native Charles Gilmore hosted the first polling place, school, and church meetings, later donating ground for a cemetery and sanctuary and serving as the area's first postmaster in 1852. Nearby Wild Cat Bluff thrived as a Trinity River ferry crossing until the river became unnavigable after the Civil War, and over time these early communities faded as activity shifted elsewhere.

Andrews, TX

Andrews County sat on one of Texas's last frontiers, where Anglo settlement lagged some sixty years behind the rest of the state because of Comanche resistance and a punishing scarcity of water. O. B. Holt filed the first land claim in 1886, and hardy families like the Cowdens and Peter Von Holebeke followed, but by 1900 the county still counted only 87 people and did not organize until 1910. Windmill pumps and drift fences finally made ranching workable on the dry plains, and the 1930 discovery of oil turned decades of stubborn endurance into sudden prosperity.

Caldwell, TX

When Santa Anna revoked constitutional rights, thirty or more men left this thinly settled corner of Burleson County to join the Texas Revolution, fighting in the Grass Fight of November 1835 and the Siege of Bexar that December. With the men away, the Mexican advance came within forty miles, and civilians fled across the flooded Brazos toward safety in the United States during the panic known as the Runaway Scrape. On April 21, 1836, these settlers helped win the Battle of San Jacinto and Texas independence.

Eastland, TX

Cattle grazed the Eastland County grasslands in the 1850s, and the U.S. Army's frontier forts drew a first trickle of families from the older Southern states. The Civil War emptied the region when the garrisons withdrew and settlers fled to fortified refuges like Blair's Fort, but pioneers returned afterward and organized the county in 1873. A contested county-seat fight moved the government from Merriman to the newly founded town of Eastland in 1875.

Kerrville, TX

Kentucky-born Joshua D. Brown came to Texas in 1830, did military duty for the Republic, and in 1846 led ten shingle makers to the cypress-rich headwaters of the Guadalupe, building a camp of picket houses to hand-rive shingles despite the danger of Indian raids. His shingle trade was the first industry on the site of Kerrville; Brown bought 2,640 acres, donated the townsite, and insisted the county be named for his friend, surveyor James Kerr.

Stratford, TX

Coldwater Creek offered the only live water for miles, and so it became the first settled corner of Sherman County. Buffalo hunter J.D. Rawlings arrived in the 1870s and later served as county judge; ranchers, freighters, and merchants followed in the 1890s, among them W.B. Slaughter, John Lanners, and Thomas Snyder. Together they built the cattle-and-supply economy of the Texas Panhandle frontier.

Claude, TX

When Armstrong County organized in 1890, its first sheriffs inherited the peacekeeping once handled by ranchers on the open range. These lawmen earned no salary—only fees for serving civil and criminal process—and lived with their families in the jail quarters, even feeding the prisoners. From John F. Wilson through James D. Woodburn, they policed rustling and other crimes and won lasting respect in the young Panhandle county.

Jefferson, TX

What started in 1854 as a humble log blacksmith shop in Jefferson grew into a bell foundry under G. A. Kelly, casting the cowbells that clanged from the ox teams of pioneer freighters. The shop went on to make the Kelly plow, one of the first modern plows manufactured in Texas. It was an early spark of Texas industry in a place better known for river commerce.

Columbus, TX

In the young Republic of Texas, a frontier town's first drugstore was a lifeline — the closest thing to a hospital many settlers would ever see. Founded in 1844 by Philadelphia-trained Dr. John G. Logue, this Columbus store dispensed medicine through the Republic, statehood, the Civil War, and the railroad age, passing through a long line of owners including one who founded the town's railway hospital. Its trade reached as far as Gonzales and Bastrop, and one proprietor stood behind the counter for nearly half a century.

Socorro, TX

When Pueblo peoples of northern New Mexico rose against Spanish rule in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, refugees — Spanish colonists and allied Indians alike — fled southeast down the Rio Grande to the El Paso del Norte area. There the Franciscans founded Mission Santa Maria de Socorro del Sur, and by 1691 a permanent adobe church rose here beside a Piro Indian pueblo. Floods eventually destroyed it, and after the river shifted in 1829 the present Socorro mission was built nearby; excavations in the 1980s confirmed this as the oldest known mission site in Texas.

Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth grew into a cattle supply depot in the 1870s as drovers pushed herds north, and railroad lines soon drew stockyards along their tracks. Boston investors bought the yards in 1893, and the Fort Worth Stock Yards Company held its first livestock show at Marine Creek in 1896, boosted by the Texas Cattle Raisers Association. With backing from Armour and Swift, the show grew into the National Feeders and Breeders Show, added a Wild West act in 1916, and by 1918 became the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show before relocating in 1944.

Sulphur Bluff, TX

The first known settlers at Sulphur Bluff were the family of John Gregg, whose cemetery holds a marker from the Republic of Texas era in 1837. The Hargrave brothers came from Indiana and built brush-roofed log homes on a high bluff above the Sulphur River, where game was plentiful and the height offered safety. Robert Hargrave, a mechanical talent, ran a woodworking shop, a blacksmith shop, and a grist mill that drew customers from fifty miles away; a post office followed in 1849 and a school in 1852.

Longview, TX

This house is one of the few surviving structures of Earpville, the early settlement that grew into Longview, standing along William T. Brooks's stagecoach line running from Monroe, Louisiana, to Tyler, Texas. Built before 1882 and bought that year by Alabama natives Latimus and Mary Teague, it became a schoolhouse in 1890 when their daughters Molly and Sarah taught classes and music here until the school moved in 1905.

College Station, TX

When Texas A&M opened in 1876 four miles from the nearest town of Bryan, the college had to house its own faculty and staff, and the first five brick homes went up along Throckmorton Street that year. By 1938 more than a hundred houses—from Queen Anne mansions to modest bungalows—dotted the campus. After College Station was incorporated that year, the college sold the homes off for a few hundred dollars each and cleared the rest; none remain on campus, though forty-one have since been located nearby.

Cuero, TX

This bandstand, a replica of the first one raised in Cuero's park, recalls a Texas town's love of music — hosting concerts, patriotic rallies, ice cream socials, and street dances. Cuero's musicians served as the official band for the town's famous "Turkey Trot," a Thanksgiving-season showing of turkeys founded in 1912 and launched with a parade led by the governor. The marker traces a longer story too, from Spanish presidio bands and fiddle tunes played on the frontier to the many fine ensembles that European settlers organized once their instruments arrived in the 1840s.

Matagorda, TX

Before railroads reached Texas, everything a frontier settlement needed—flour, tools, munitions, trade goods—moved on the backs of ox and mule teams driven by teamsters who braved raids, bandits, and brutal weather. One of the few regular runs linked Austin and Matagorda, wagons rolling out on the 1st and 15th of each month across six counties. Loads grew from crude 15-foot wooden carts with prickly-pear-greased hubs to two-ton "Prairie Schooners," and caravans could stretch from five wagons to a hundred and fifty, circling into a defensive corral when attacked. The coming of the "Iron Horse" in 1853 began the freighter's slow disappearance.

Round Top, TX

Before highways and railroads knit Texas together, travel meant long, uncertain journeys broken by roadside inns like the Sam Lewis Stopping Place near Winedale. Begun in 1834 as a two-room log cabin and enlarged over the years with the help of German craftsmen, it sheltered stagecoach passengers who shared family meals and a bed for the night. Such inns changed horses, fed travelers, and often handled the community's mail—humble institutions on which whole towns and stage lines depended.

Corsicana, TX

In 1902 the first public use of natural gas in Texas began on this Corsicana street, piping fuel to nearby homes and businesses. Navarro County became a cradle of the industry — the first gas meters appeared at Chatfield in 1905, and gas was first used to pump oil wells here in 1906. From these modest lines grew a network that within a generation spanned the state and, by the 1920s, launched the nation's first interstate natural gas pipelines.

Port Arthur, TX

This marks the route of Texas' first oil pipelines to tidewater, built in 1901 to carry crude from the famous Spindletop gusher that came in on January 10 of that year. A company that would become Gulf Pipeline laid eleven miles of line to the railroad in just two weeks, then extended it to Port Arthur, and within a few years the region was laced with hundreds of miles of pipe. The marker also recalls the wartime 'Big Inch' line from Texas to the Atlantic as a decisive factor in Allied victory in World War II.

Brenham, TX

In pioneer Texas, hopeful merchants tried to make the Brazos River a commercial highway, with Washington-on-the-Brazos as a key distribution point for the state's rich cotton and sugar country. The first steamer reached Washington in 1840, and by 1849 its docks bustled with boats bound for New Orleans. But shallow, flood-prone, driftwood-choked rivers doomed most such ventures, and by 1865 the era of Texas river steamers had passed.

San Augustine, TX

Texas lumbering, the state's first million-dollar industry, entered recorded history in 1819 with two sawmills, one of them run by pioneer William Ward on a creek in what is now San Augustine County. By 1825 a nearby mill was turning out about 500 board feet a day, cutting logs felled by ax and wedge and hauled by cart to the water. From primitive pit saws and animal-powered muley mills to the labor-saving sash saw, the craft advanced steadily and became a pivot for railroads and dozens of related trades in the Piney Woods.

Uvalde, TX

Before automobiles, the wagon yard was the crossroads of rural Texas life — part hotel, part social center, where drivers could shelter their teams, cook a meal, and swap news and gossip. An open area flanked by sheds, stalls, and feed rooms, a yard might fill a city block and charge a quarter to a dollar a day, and families sometimes lingered for weeks awaiting kin or goods arriving by train or stage. Merchants such as the F.A. Piper Company, whose yard stood a block west of this spot, often built and ran these yards free of charge to draw customers.

Beeville, TX

The roads of Bee County were centuries in the making: Native, wild-cattle, and mustang trails became highways for Spanish expeditions pressing north from Mexico, and later guided pioneers who founded towns at their crossings — Beeville itself sits where two old roads met. During the Civil War the vital "cotton road," called the lifeline of the Confederacy, crossed the county, and afterward great cattle trails funneled Longhorns north toward the Chisholm and Dodge City routes.

Ringgold, TX

Sitting on the natural line of travel from the United States toward Mexico and the West, this county was once laced with historic roads. The Chihuahua Traders Trail of 1840, the ill-fated Texan-Santa Fe Expedition of 1841, and Captain Randolph Marcy's 1849 California Trail all left their tracks here, soon joined by the Butterfield Overland Mail and feeder branches of the Chisholm cattle trail. By 1882 the first railroad traced much of the old Santa Fe route, and modern Highway 82 still follows Marcy's path.

Vernon, TX

Organized in 1858 on the rolling plains of North Texas, Wilbarger County took its name from early settlers, including surveyor Josiah Wilbarger, famous for surviving a scalping. The land here was frontier in the fullest sense: the Doan brothers' adobe house marked the Red River crossing of the Western Cattle Trail, where great herds forded on their way north. The county seat of Vernon, once called Eagle Flat, gained a railroad in 1886 as the open range gave way to towns and rails.

Earth, TX

Before settlers arrived, Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa people followed the buffalo across this stretch of the High Plains from water hole to water hole, favoring a spring that later anchored the XIT Ranch's Springlake headquarters. The Halsell family assembled the 300,000-acre Mashed O Ranch here in 1902, then in 1923 began selling rangeland to Midwestern farmers as the plains shifted from cattle to the plow. When the new town's post office opened in 1925, the names 'Fairlawn' and 'Tulsa' were rejected in favor of 'Earth.'

Georgetown, TX

Samuel Allen Easley came to Texas from South Carolina as an infant, and his family settled along the San Gabriel River in Williamson County. After a lifetime managing the family farm, he and his wife Roberta moved into Georgetown in 1913 and built this bungalow with its broad hip roof and wraparound porch. The house remained in the Easley family until 1968.

Dallas, TX

Members of Central Christian Church organized this fellowship in 1903, first meeting in a wooden chapel and moving to this donated site in 1907 before erecting a brick building in 1912. Under its first pastor, the Rev. John Stevens, and later leaders, the church became a force in the growth of east Dallas, backing neighborhood programs and missions — including the Juliette Fowler Home, launched by member Sara Harwood.

Bridgeport, TX

East Mound took its name from a lookout point used by Indians and settlers alike in the 19th century. In 1876 landowner W.C. Ellis set aside acreage for public use, and a cemetery opened by 1880; a decade earlier the future artist Van Dearing Perrine spent part of his boyhood here. In 1887 Ellis and T.J. Wise deeded three acres for a one-room school that at times packed nearly a hundred pupils across eight grades under a single teacher, until it consolidated with Bridgeport in 1930.

Winnsboro, TX

When I. F. Taylor donated land for a church and school in 1878, the East Point settlement gained an anchor for community life. The Missionary Baptist congregation formed in 1893 with twelve charter members, worshipping in a schoolhouse and brush arbor until a sanctuary rose in 1909. Church and school shared the site until 1953, and the congregation still serves the area today.

New Waverly, TX

In the 1850s the Sandel and Powell families moved from Mississippi to the south bank of East Sandy Creek, establishing a Methodist congregation that worshiped in a small building doubling as a schoolhouse. The adjoining East Sandy Cemetery holds a marked grave from 1861 and, by oral tradition, still-earlier unmarked burials. The school ran until about 1913 before merging with a neighbor, and the cemetery now marks where a scattered rural community once centered its life.

Leonard, TX

Eighteen members meeting in a nearby schoolhouse organized East Shady Grove Baptist Church in October 1884, calling T. P. Reece as the first of many pastors. A Sunday school followed in early 1885, and the congregation dedicated its permanent church building in 1911. The steady growth mirrors the maturing of rural Fannin County.

Decatur, TX

Established in 1882, East Side Elementary was the only school for African American students in Wise County, a one-room frame building near Mrs. Missouri Brown's home that also served as a church. Students warmed themselves at a pot-bellied stove and made do with furnishings and textbooks discarded by Decatur's white schools; those who finished eighth grade had to travel 30 to 45 miles to Denton or Fort Worth to continue. The school operated until desegregation in 1965.

Glenwood, TX

After the Civil War, freedmen settled this Upshur County area as tenant cotton farmers and built the community institutions — school, church, and cemetery — that sustained them. The East Springfield Baptist congregation formed in the 1800s and received its property in 1923, its small membership matching the devotion of far larger churches. For over a century it offered worship, Sunday school, and socials that bound together neighboring freedmen's settlements.

Waco, TX

East Terrace was built in the 1870s by John W. Mann, a Waco business leader whose brickyard supplied much of the material for the famous Waco Suspension Bridge; Brazos River sand tinted the brick he made for his own Italian-villa home. His New York-born wife likely chose the fashionable styling, to which Texas-style galleries and Galveston millwork were added.

Marshall, TX

Marshall had schooled its children in private academies since the 1840s when, at a 1911 banquet, Baptist pastor William T. Tardy challenged local Methodists to help start a college—and they promised support if the Baptists would build one. The College of Marshall opened as a junior college in 1912 on land carved from the old Van Zandt plantation, growing to some 300 students by 1918. Renamed East Texas Baptist College in 1944 and university in 1984, it still serves East Texas today.

Henderson, TX

Sacred Harp, or "fasola," singing is a distinctly American folk tradition—unaccompanied, shape-note hymnody sung in dispersed harmony from special songbooks, its minor-keyed sound carrying deep emotional weight. Southern settlers migrating west carried the practice into East Texas, where it took firm root among transplanted Southern families. Tradition dates the East Texas Sacred Harp Singing Society, forerunner of the East Texas Musical Convention, to 1855; briefly suspended during the Civil War, its annual gatherings across six counties have endured ever since.

Cooper, TX

In 1889, Kentucky-educated teacher W.L. Mayo founded East Texas Normal College on this site, drawing a strong faculty behind the high board fence that enclosed its single T-shaped, two-story building. The lively little teacher-training school ran here until fire razed the structure in 1894. Aided in rebuilding at Commerce, the institution endured and grew into what became East Texas State University.

Commerce, TX

Founded in 1889 as the Mayo School and reopened in a Commerce storefront in 1894, this institution grew from the private venture of Kentucky-born teacher William Leonidas Mayo. Passing into state hands in 1917, it evolved through names—Normal College, Teachers College—into East Texas State University by 1965. Its most famous student, Sam Rayburn, went on to become the long-serving Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Rockwall, TX

Chartered in the mid-1850s when Rockwall still lay within Kaufman County, East Trinity Lodge No. 157 gathered some of the district's earliest land-grant settlers, with James Wilson named its first master. Founding officers John O. Heath and S. R. Barnes had received their grants in 1848, among the first residents of the area. In 1968 the nearby E. C. Heath lodge merged into East Trinity.

Borger, TX

When the oil-boom city of Borger was still unincorporated in 1926, its citizens petitioned to create an independent school district, and with no tax base yet in place local businessmen paid the teachers' salaries themselves that first year. Among the five brick buildings erected in 1927 was East Ward, a five-classroom school for 200 pupils and today the only one of that original set still standing. Renamed James Bowie Elementary in 1957, it absorbed the students of the segregated Booker T. Washington School when it closed in 1965 and became fully integrated that fall, before serving as the district's administrative center.

Fort Worth, TX

A block of native Trinity River stone here marks the dusty path that made Fort Worth. From the end of the Civil War until the railroad arrived in 1876, great herds of longhorns were driven up Rusk Street and across the river, resting in the valley below before the long push north to Abilene, Kansas. This route — the Eastern or McCoy Trail, which joined the Chisholm Trail at the Red River — earned Fort Worth its lasting nickname, 'Cow Town.'

Lovelady, TX

The Eastham family bought a nearly 13,000-acre plantation in Houston County in 1891 and soon leased it to the Texas prison system for share-farming, the landowner supplying tools and mules while convict labor worked the fields. The state bought the land outright in 1915 and made Eastham a hard-labor institution, building an early maximum-security unit in 1919 and using inmate labor to carve roads and a Trinity River ferry crossing. Decades later, penologist O. B. Ellis brought reforms — a library, chapel, and education program — that eased the farm's grim reputation.

Huntsville, TX

Built between 1859 and 1862 by James H. Thomason, this is among the oldest homes in Walker County. Byrd Eastham acquired it in 1869, and the two families became linked by marriage and by more than a century of continuous ownership. Its Georgian plan carries restrained Classical Revival details—a balustrade, porte cochere, and sidelit central entrance—with its distinctive two-story columns added in 1912.

Eastland, TX

Eastland took its name from William M. Eastland, a hero of the Texas War for Independence executed in the infamous 1842 "Black Bean" lottery after the Mier Expedition. Comanches long resisted settlement here, with the county's last recorded raid in 1874, and the town became county seat in 1875. A 1917 oil strike touched off one of Texas's fabled booms that swelled the population toward 25,000 and drew celebrities — and in 1928 the town made worldwide news when "Old Rip," a horned toad sealed in the old courthouse cornerstone in 1897, was found alive.

Eastland, TX

Eastland County was created in 1858 but sat so thinly settled that it was not organized until 1873, and its county seat bounced between Merriman, the new town of Eastland, and rival Cisco through a string of hard-fought elections. The Texas & Pacific Railway's arrival in 1880 spurred growth, and the oil and gas booms of the 1910s and 1920s bankrolled a grand Art Deco courthouse, opened in 1928 with carved eagles, shields, and a central tower. The building also gained fame as the home of "Old Rip," a horned toad legend said to have survived sealed in the previous courthouse cornerstone.

Bay City, TX

Eastview Cemetery began in 1907 on 1.8 acres bought from D. P. Moore, with the first recorded burial in 1912, and grew by more than five acres in 1945. Known over the years as "The Burying Ground for Negroes" and the "Old Section," it sits beside the Anglo Cedarvale Cemetery and holds more than 780 graves, among them veterans of both world wars, Korea, and Vietnam. Tied to the area's African American churches and organizations, it is still tended by a cemetery association.

Thornton, TX

The Richard Eaton family arrived in Texas in 1833 as part of the Robertson Colony and moved to this area around 1845 to establish a home and farm. The small burial ground began with Richard's first wife, Mary, who died about 1848, and grew to hold Eaton, his second wife Charity, other family members, and neighbors. Both marked and unmarked graves make it a resting place of many early Texas pioneers.

Galveston, TX

In 1882, Galveston's Trinity parish honored the Rev. Benjamin Eaton, its founding rector from 1841 until 1871, with a Gothic Revival chapel designed by the celebrated Texas architect Nicholas Clayton. Half the funds came from the women of the Ladies' Parochial Society and half from financier Henry Rosenberg, a pairing of grassroots and philanthropic giving. After an 1885 city fire, the chapel sheltered another congregation and served as the center of parish life during later repairs, earning recognition as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1970.

Brenham, TX

German immigrants settled the Berlin community near Brenham in 1847, and on Christmas Eve 1854 the Rev. Johann Ebinger held Washington County's first Lutheran service. He founded Eben-Ezer Church on July 1, 1855, on eleven acres donated by Ludwig C. Lehmann, with landowners giving post-oak logs and renters giving labor to raise a building that also housed a parsonage. The early pastors taught school there, making the church the settlement's spiritual and educational heart.

Austin, TX

The Ebenezer (Third) Baptist Church was organized in February 1875 in the home of Elisa Hawkins, part of the flowering of independent Black congregations across Texas in the years after emancipation. As the membership grew it moved from a simple frame building to a brick sanctuary with stained glass in 1885, a stucco tabernacle in 1915, and finally the Gothic limestone-and-brick complex built in the 1950s, whose tower still holds the bell from the first brick church. The congregation's steady expansion mirrors the deep roots of religious life in East Austin's Black community.

Wolfe City, TX

The first African Americans in northern Hunt County arrived enslaved in the 1840s, and after the Civil War a community grew around L. P. Wolfe's mill on Oyster Creek. In June 1889, Brother Harrison Loftin, himself formerly enslaved, gathered Black neighbors and members of the White Baptist church to found a congregation; among them were four African American women, one of whom proposed the name Ebenezer, "stone of help." Rev. A. C. Brown became its first pastor, and the church endured across generations, including the fifty-six-year ministry of Rev. John Williams.

Walker County, TX

Ebenezer Baptist Church was organized in 1854 by frontier Baptist ministers who first gathered worshippers in members' homes in the piney woods of Walker County. Its earliest building, a two-story structure shared with a Masonic lodge, stood near what became Ebenezer Cemetery, and the congregation relocated several times over the following decades. It became a training ground for preachers and missionaries and a steady anchor for the surrounding community.

Kosse, TX

Organized in 1865 to serve the Head's Prairie and Headsville communities, Ebenezer Baptist Church grew from 41 members to 210 by 1897 before declining and disbanding in 1958. Its adjacent cemetery has served this part of Limestone County since at least 1876, when B. F. Brooks and Charley Owen were among the first buried there. The church and burial ground trace the life of a rural congregation from Reconstruction into the modern era.

Huntsville, TX

Organized in 1854 on land donated by Jonathan and Sarah McGary along the stagecoach road linking Huntsville and Austin, Ebenezer Cemetery grew up beside a Baptist congregation founded under the auspices of the Southern Baptist Convention. Its earliest marked grave dates to 1855, and among those resting here are first families of the Republic of Texas era and veterans reaching back to the Civil War. Though the congregation later disbanded and reorganized elsewhere, a memorial association incorporated in 1986 still tends the ground.

Pittsburg, TX

Ebenezer Cemetery marks a small farming community founded in the 1850s by families who came west from Georgia to the pine country of what became Camp County. Israel Rape deeded the land in 1857, though the oldest marked grave belongs to an infant who died in 1870, a reminder of how fragile life on the antebellum frontier could be. A cemetery association organized in 1971 still keeps the two-acre ground active today.

Henderson, TX

In the mid-1800s a farming and ranching settlement grew up along what is now FM 3310, known first as the Mansinger neighborhood and later as Ebenezer after its church and school. The cemetery's recorded history opens with the 1886 burial of Julia Kitchens, and among those resting here are pioneer families, Masons, Woodmen of the World, and veterans reaching back to the Civil War. Shaded by crepe myrtles and cedar, it still serves the descendants of those first settlers.

Jasper, TX

Begun in 1860 as a family graveyard with the burial of an infant son of the Dean family, this cemetery grew into a community resting place when the Deans deeded land for it and the adjoining Ebenezer Methodist Church in 1861. Among those interred here are citizens of the Republic of Texas, a veteran of the Texas Revolution, two unknown cowboys who died passing through, and generations of pioneer families.