Damon Cemetery

The graves lie beside the feature that put Damon on the map: a limestone mound in northwestern Brazoria County, rising about 146 feet above the plain and running roughly a mile east to west and 600 to 800 yards wide. Abraham Darst's Mexican grant took in the ground. It later passed by marriage into the Damon estate, which held it for about forty years. People quarried the mound for limestone, and its mineral springs were used as medicine.

What the plaque says

Damon Cemetery One of oldest cemeteries in county. Started Dec. 13, 1837, with burial of Sylvester Winn Damon, a relative, on Abraham Darst's land grant of 1829 from Mexico. Locating of this first grave was within a year of date of founding of Brazoria County. Cemetery dedicated and 2.5 acre tract deeded to public, Sept. 1, 1908. (1964)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brazos Bend State Park — 11 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 11 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.
• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 21 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.
• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 31 mi
  Coastal prairie, salt marsh and bays between Freeport and Christmas Bay, where an auto tour along Big Slough passes wintering geese, ducks and wading birds in the tens of thousands.

More markers nearby

• Samuel Damon — steps away
• Abraham Darst — steps away
• Needville Methodist Church Cemetery — 8.8 mi
• W. H. Abrams Well No. 1 — 9.3 mi