Louis Moore

Chalk Bluff took its name from the Austin chalk above the Brazos, and the Handbook of Texas says railroads bypassed it by two miles in 1882, so it stayed a farm community. Another Texas Historical Commission marker in this cemetery says Louis Moore received title to a quarter league on the river's east bank above Waco Village on August 20, 1835. He buried his family on the highest point of his land, and the Moore Spring Cemetery Association formed in 1921. The family plot grew into a community cemetery of more than eleven acres, now bounded by homes.

What the plaque says

Louis Moore (May25, 1817-May 13, 1894) Missouri native Louise Moore moved from Arkansas to Texas about 1834. He received a Mexican land grant and enlisted in the Texas Army in April 1836. He was among the troops who guarded baggage at Harrisburg during the battle of San Jacinto and later served with the Texas Ranger Company which established Fort Fisher. Twice married, he was the father of nine children. In his later years he lived in the Chalk Bluff Community. (1989)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Waco Mammoth National Monument — 3.0 mi
  A bone bed on the Bosque River where a nursery herd of at least 19 Columbian mammoths was trapped and drowned by floodwater 65,000 to 72,000 years ago, left in place under a dig shelter.
• Waco Suspension Bridge — 5.0 mi
  A Brazos crossing opened in January 1870 as the longest single-span suspension bridge west of the Mississippi, tolled until 1889, closed to vehicles in 1971 and now walked.
• Dr Pepper Museum — 5.4 mi
  The 1906 bottling plant of the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company, built where Dr Pepper outgrew a Waco drugstore soda fountain, now the Dr Pepper Museum.
• Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum — 5.4 mi
  The official state repository of Texas Ranger memorabilia, opened in 1968 in Fort Fisher Park on the Brazos, named for a Ranger post of 1837 whose site no one has located.

More markers nearby

• McLennan County — 1.9 mi
• Bosqueville Baptist Church — 3.8 mi
• Bosqueville Cemetery — 3.9 mi
• Proctor Springs — 4.2 mi