Buffalo Gap Cemetery

Historical marker location:

FM 89, 1 mile W. of Buffalo Gap, Buffalo Gap, Texas

( From Buffalo Gap, go about 1 mile west on Highway 89 to cemetery entrance.)

Marker installed: 1968

Oldest public cemetery in Taylor County; used by residents of Buffalo Gap even before the earliest known headstones were erected, about 1877. In the older section of the ten-acre plot are 146 graves, many of Civil War veterans and pioneer citizens of Taylor County. Tract is still in use.

(1968).

gravesites

The state flower of Texas is the bluebonnet. The flower blooms in the spring and is a common sight along the highways and in fields throughout the state.