Chisholm Cemetery

Chisholm had a twin. Nearby stood McLendon's, named for P. A. McLendon, who about 1870 built a store, cotton gin and blacksmith shop that kept running until 1975. Chisholm took its name from Enoch Parson Chisholm, who settled 200 acres in 1856; his brother B. Frank Chisholm was a colonel in the Civil War. Berry Creek Academy, formed in 1886 from two small schools, had four rooms, four teachers and 301 students by 1898, the second-largest school in the county. The two villages incorporated as one town, McLendon-Chisholm, on October 18, 1969.

What the plaque says

Chisholm Cemetery Enoch P. Chisholm, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, brought his family to this area in the 1860s. The community which grew up here was named in his honor. Chisholm donated land for this graveyard in 1871, and in 1875 he became the first person interred in it. A chapel, also named for Chisholm, was built that same year on the cemetery grounds. At its peak, the town of Chisholm boasted a school, post office, Masonic Lodge, cotton gin, and stores. Many early pioneers were interred in the Chisholm Cemetery, and some of their descendants still reside in the area. (1990)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rockwall County Historical Foundation & Museum — 7.2 mi
  A small museum in Harry Myers Park that keeps the evidence on Rockwall's rock wall, sandstone dikes that geologists call natural and folk tales call built.
• No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum — 11 mi
  A free museum at Terrell's airport where about 2,200 RAF cadets learned to fly between 1941 and 1945, with logbooks, uniforms, letters and original training aircraft.
• Fair Park — 23 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 23 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

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