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Buffalo Gap Cemetery

Buffalo Gap, Taylor County

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)

Marker Details

Address FM 89, 1 mile W. of Buffalo Gap
Location Description From Buffalo Gap, go about 1 mile west on Highway 89 to cemetery entrance.
Marker # 559
Dedicated 1968
Size, Type 20" x 20"
Code cemetery
Latitude, Longitude 32.265628, -99.851051

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