McCree Cemetery

Mahulda Bonner McCree gave 1.5 acres to William McCullough and James E. Jackson on June 19, 1866, and she was the only grantor to sign the deed, the City of Dallas landmark nomination says. The land lay inside the Harrison Hustead survey. Eliza Prigmore, killed by a tornado in 1867, lies here. A one-acre tract sold in 1896 became a burial ground for the community's Black residents, and a few stones, Jeff Hill's among them, survive. After decades of vandalism, a 2015 inventory counted 158 markers.

What the plaque says

McCree Cemetery The first land for this cemetery was granted by Mahulda Bonner McCree in 1866. At least two burials, for John Henry Jones (d. 1862) and Elizabeth McCullough (d. 1864), occurred before the graveyard was formally deeded. Over the years, the cemetery has been enlarged to cover over 3 acres. It contains the graves of Peters colonists, war veterans, and many persons associated with early area Methodist and Baptist churches. McCree Cemetery remains an important part of the recorded history of Dallas County. (1985)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fair Park — 7.5 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 7.7 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 8.2 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 8.6 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.

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