Bagdad Cemetery

This is the one piece of Bagdad still in use. The county historical commission names the trustees of 1862 as James Branch, George Craven, John Heinatz and C. C. Mason, and Heinatz was also the town's postmaster from 1858. Other burials include John Faubion, who died at 89, and members of the Craven and Williamson families. Charles Babcock, who surveyed the town about 1854 and kept its wayside inn, is not buried here, and the commission places him and his wife in Burnet County. The post office and several businesses moved to Leander in 1882.

What the plaque says

Bagdad Cemetery Opened 1857 with burial of 3-year-old John Babcock, whose father Charles later gave tract to community. Other early burials were Civil War veteran John Haile and Col. C. C. Mason. Leander, founded 1882 when railroad bypassed Bagdad, shares use of this tract, enlarged in 1959 and 1966. (1972)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Inner Space Cavern — 11 mi
  A Georgetown cave found in 1963 when highway engineers drilled test holes, holding Pleistocene fossils and 72-degree rooms that visitors reach by an artificial tunnel.
• The Round Rock — 12 mi
  A table-shaped stone in Brushy Creek gave Round Rock its name in 1854; the Chisholm Trail crossed the creek near it, and Old Town stayed behind when the railroad pulled the town east.
• Williamson County Courthouse — 12 mi
  The fifth Williamson County courthouse, a Beaux Arts building by C. H. Page, rises over a Georgetown square of more than 50 Victorian-era buildings.
• Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge: Doeskin Ranch — 12 mi
  A free federal refuge north of Lake Travis kept for two songbirds that need old juniper and oak, with trails at the Doeskin Ranch unit near Bertram.

More markers nearby

• Leander Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi
• Leander United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi
• Leander Schools — 1.0 mi
• Leander — 1.1 mi