Callahan City Cemetery

The plaque speaks of the era of great early ranches; the Handbook of Texas names some of them. In 1874 Jasper McCoy set up a ranch on Pecan Bayou, and the Merchant brothers and Dr. J. D. Windham also ranched in the county. Cattle drives passed through as well. The Western Trail to Dodge City ran up the Pecan Bayou valley and past the Bar-be-cue Ranch east of the later site of Baird. The Jacksboro Echo estimated that 73,000 head moved up it in the first part of 1876 alone, and by 1880 the yearly count passed 260,000.

What the plaque says

Established prior to the organization of Callahan County in 1877. Burial place of many pioneers who came here during era of Indians and great early ranches. Served people of such bygone towns as Admiral, Callahan City, and other neighboring communities. (1967)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Conrad Hilton Center and Mobley Hotel — 19 mi
  The 40-room oil-boom hotel in Cisco that Conrad Hilton bought in 1919 when a bank deal fell through, now a museum of the Hilton start and of Cisco's 1927 Santa Claus bank robbery.
• Frontier Texas! — 26 mi
  Abilene's multimedia museum of the frontier as the settlers told it, beside the Texas and Pacific tracks the town was built on, and the official visitor center for the Texas Forts Trail.
• Fort Phantom Hill — 30 mi
  A field of lone stone chimneys north of Abilene, left by the fire after the Army left in 1854, later a stage stop and a buffalo-hide town of more than 500 people.

More markers nearby

• Callahan City — steps away
• Admiral Baptist Church — 3.5 mi
• Belle Plain — 4.4 mi
• Site of Belle Plain College — 4.4 mi