Marker Inscription
Nubbin Ridge Cemetery Established 1878 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2003
Historical Marker
Nubbin Ridge Cemetery
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About this site
Nubbin Ridge Cemetery is a historical marker in Granbury, Hood County, dedicated in 2003. It is one of 60 historical markers documented in Hood County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 98 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.3272, -97.7395 near Granbury. The nearest cataloged historic site is Mitchell Bend (cemetery), about 2.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include Comanche Peak, Barnard, and Kristenstad.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5221012956. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Nubbin Ridge Cemetery sits about seven miles south of Granbury in Hood County, in an area once called Bald Knob that was renamed after drought years in 1886-1887 left farmers with only a few small "nubbins" of corn. The cemetery began on April 21, 1878, when neighbor Thomas Love Burns, a Methodist preacher who had come to Hood County in 1870, donated land to bury the infant son of F.M. and Mary Edens. Burns himself became the second person interred there when he died in 1880, and the grounds received Historic Texas Cemetery designation in 2003.
Sources: hctxhs.orgnubbinridgecemetery.org
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