Cornhill Cemetery

The cemetery is what is left of a town that picked up and moved. Corn Hill took its name from the cornfields of John Ethelbert King and Sylvia Bunker King, whose house stood on a rise above them; a post office opened in 1855, and King was county judge from 1858 to 1860. George Grant founded Corn Hill Academy in 1878 on land King gave. When the Bartlett and Western Railway bypassed the town for Jarrell in 1909, the post office, the Masonic lodge and other buildings were moved north between 1910 and 1920.

What the plaque says

Cornhill Cemetery Established in 1886 on a two-acre site deeded to Cornhill Masonic Lodge No. 567 by Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Bridges. Interred here are community leaders, three Civil War soldiers, and veterans of other wars. Maintained by Cornhill Cemetery Association since 1953. Area now six acres. (1970)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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.
• Inner Space Cavern — 14 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 — 21 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.
• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 25 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.

More markers nearby

• Daniel Harrison — steps away
• Corn Hill Community — 0.7 mi
• Jarrell — 2.6 mi
• Community of Theon — 2.8 mi