Cemeteries

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San Marcos - Blanco Cemetery African-Americans and paupers share common ground at this cemetery in San Marcos.

Preece Cemetery This cemetery not too far from Steiner Ranch once served as the final resting place for those who worked the land in this rapidly urbanizing area.

Pedernales Falls Cemetery This is one cemetery that takes a bit of effort to get to, but there's plenty of solitude in store.

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

A wide view of the cemetery. Note the Crownover Chapel and school building in the background. Fairland Cemetery

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Respectfully looked from afar metria@gmail.com 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

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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.