Marker Number |
559 |
Atlas Number |
5441000559 |
Marker Title |
Buffalo Gap Cemetery |
Index Entry |
Buffalo Gap Cemetery |
Address |
FM 89, 1 mile W. of Buffalo Gap |
City |
Buffalo Gap |
County |
Taylor |
UTM Zone |
14 |
UTM Easting |
419845 |
UTM Northing |
3570197 |
Subject Codes |
cemetery |
Marker Year |
1968 |
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
Marker Location |
From Buffalo Gap, go about 1 mile west on Highway 89 to cemetery entrance. |
Private Property |
No |
Marker Condition |
In Situ |
Marker Size |
20" x 20" |
Marker Text |
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) |