Mahomet Cemetery

Burnet County's first congregations were as scattered as its graves. One of the earliest was a Christian church organized at Sycamore Springs in 1851, the same year Mormons at Mormon Mill formed theirs. A Baptist church followed on Oatmeal Creek in 1854 and a Church of Christ at Burnet in 1856. Few communities had their own preacher, so people traveled for miles to camp meetings, the first of them held by Methodists at Sand Springs in the fall of 1855. The first deed for church land in the county was made in Backbone Valley in 1859.

What the plaque says

Mahomet Cemetery This cemetery, with interments dating back to the 1850s, became a community graveyard for the Sycamore Springs and Mahomet rural communities. In 1909 J. W. Williams and J. W. and Nellie Greer deeded the cemetery property to the community of Mahomet. Among the hundreds of people buried here are many of the area's pioneer settlers and their descendants and veterans of wars ranging from the Mexican War (1846-1848) to the Vietnam War. Mahomet Cemetery remains active and is maintained by an association of descendants of people buried here. Sesquicentennial of Texas Statehood 1845 - 1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge: Doeskin Ranch — 16 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.
• Hancock Springs Park — 22 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.
• Longhorn Cavern State Park — 26 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.
• Inks Lake State Park — 26 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.

More markers nearby

• Mount Horeb Lodge — 0.3 mi
• Mahomet-Sycamore Springs Community — 0.3 mi
• Prairie View Cemetery — 3.3 mi
• The Community of Briggs — 5.0 mi