Minter's Chapel Cemetery

Few cemeteries sit inside an airport, and this one is older than the airport by more than a century. The Handbook of Texas says ground was broken for the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport in December 1968, at the meeting point of Euless, Irving and Grapevine, and that the first commercial flight landed on January 13, 1974. The grounds eventually covered more than 17,000 acres. The graveyard kept only 1.5 acres of the old chapel tract, and the cemetery has its own association, whose records the Tarrant County Archives holds.

What the plaque says

Minter's Chapel Cemetery Soon after lay Minister Green W. Minter (1803-1887) moved here about 1854, he helped organize Minter's Chapel Methodist Church. His son-in-law James Cate set aside 4.1 acres here for a church and burial ground. The earliest marked grave is that of A.M. Newton in 1857. Many tiny graves indicate a high child mortality rate. The early log meetinghouse was replaced in 1882 by a frame structure. In 1967 the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport acquired the land, except for this 1.5-acre cemetery, and the church was relocated. (1979)

Where it stands

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More markers nearby

• Bear Creek Cemetery — 2.0 mi
• Elisha Adam Euless — 3.6 mi
• First Baptist Church of Grapevine — 3.8 mi
• Grapevine — 3.9 mi