Cemeteries

Features

Decker Cemetery This cemetery in east Austin testifies to the many Swedish immigrants who settled in the area.

Nameless Cemetery Frustrated by attempts to name their town, citizens here decided to leave their town, and cemetery, Nameless.

Cemeterio Guadalupe Many of San Marcos' Hispanic community have made their final resting place here.

Decker Free Church Cemetery A community of Swedish immigrants east of Austin started this church in the late 1800's.

The large Texas flag that flies over the cemetery shown with the state capital in the distance. Texas State Cemetery

Recent Log Entries

Tiny plot just off the trail Austin Explorer visited McRae Family Cemetery
Small rural Cemetery Bing-GTX visited Rocky Hollow Cemetery
A neglected cemetery Bing-GTX visited Burdett Prairie Cemetery
Hidden cemetery Bing-GTX visited Greenwood Cemetery
Northern most of three adjacent Cemeteries Bing-GTX visited Mt Horeb Cemetery

Recommended Item

Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
China Galland
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By the eve of the Civil War, there were four million slaves in North America, and Harrison County was the largest slave-owning county in Texas. So when China Galland returned to research her family history there, it should not have surprised her to learn of unmarked cemeteries for slaves. "My daddy never let anybody plow this end of the field," a local matron told a startled Galland during a visit to her antebellum mansion. "The slaves are buried there." Galland's subsequent effort to help restore just one of these cemeteries—Love Cemetery—unearths a quintessential American story of prejudice, land theft, and environmental destruction, uncovering racial wounds that are slow to heal.