Crowley Cemetery

Crowley moved to the railroad. Farmers settled near Deer Creek around 1848, and the town shifted to a new site when the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe built pens and laid track there. The first depot went up in 1885. The town took the name of S. H. Crowley, the line's master of transportation, though a post office had opened in 1882. Dairy farming, ranching and the railroad drove the local economy. A two-story concrete building served as the first school in 1905, and incorporation came only in 1951, after a vote on February 3.

What the plaque says

Crowley Cemetery This burial ground originally served the early settlers of the Deer Creek area who began moving here about 1848. The earliest marked grave is that of Thomas D. Stephenson (1848-57), the eight-year-old son of I.N. Stephenson (d. 1883) who came to Tarrant County in the 1850s. The property was deeded for use as a public burial site in 1879 by Sarah J. "Sallie" Dunn. Originallly known as Deer Creek Cemetery, the name was changed about 1880, shortly after the settlement of Crowley was organized along the route of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad. (1980)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 11 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 12 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 12 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 14 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.

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