Cemetery
Texas State Cemetery
Rolling burial ground of Texas founders, reclaimed from decades of overgrowth in the 1990s.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin follows the two centuries between an 1851 burial ground and a 1994 rescue, when a state official found the grounds gone to weed and refused to accept it. You'll hear how neglect crept in over generations, who is buried among the roughly two thousand Confederate dead in the southern half, and how federal highway money ended up paying to fix a graveyard. Look for where the sparse northern paths give way to the dense old oak canopy in the south.
This audio guide was created using AI.