Cemeteries

Features

Longview Cemetery Tiny Longview Cemetery is fenced in and boxed out from an adjacent basketball court in Longview Park in south Austin.

Hancock Family Cemetery The Hancock family's children are buried in what was once the country and is now the center of a growing subdivision in west Austin.

Dessau Lutheran Cemetery Early German immigrants congregated here in northeast Austin and many remain forever.

Davis Cemetery In this central Austin neighborhood you'll find one of the oldest cemeteries in Austin that dates near the end of the Texas Republic.

The gate of the Mahomet Cemetery Mahomet Cemetery

Recent Log Entries

Respectfully looked from afar metriaATX visited McRae Family Cemetery
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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

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.