Hopewell Cemetery

Hopewell, also called Burleson Springs, had a burial ground by the mid-1850s and church services in an adjoining field in 1855. The Handbook of Texas lists a Masonic lodge in 1863, a Presbyterian church by 1869, a post office from 1876 to 1882, and a saloon and general store in the 1880s. Its schools were segregated. In 1900 the Black school was the largest in the county, with two teachers and 140 pupils, while the White school had one teacher and thirty-nine. The school consolidated with Liberty Hill's in 1945.

What the plaque says

Hopewell Cemetery Pioneers who settled here in the 1840s and established the town of Hopewell faced many hardships, including Indian raids. Wofford and Mary Johnson and their daughter were killed by Comanches nearby in 1863. They were buried at this site near the grave of Cornelia Johnson, whose burial is the first recorded here. The graveyard was deeded to a local congregation in 1877 and in 1966 a cemetery association was formed. Buried here are area pioneers and their descendants, and veterans of the Civil War. This cemetery is all that remains of the Hopewell community. (1993)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge: Doeskin Ranch — 4.0 mi
  A free federal refuge north of Lake Travis kept for two songbirds that need old juniper and oak, with trails at the Doeskin Ranch unit near Bertram.
• Inner Space Cavern — 19 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.
• Williamson County Courthouse — 20 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.
• Longhorn Cavern State Park — 20 mi
  A cave carved by an underground river in the Hill Country, cleared of mud by hand in the 1930s and reached down 52 stone steps on a guided tour.

More markers nearby

• Liberty Hill Cemetery — 4.5 mi
• First Baptist Church of Liberty Hill — 4.8 mi
• The Village of South Gabriel — 5.3 mi
• Oatmeal Cemetery — 5.4 mi