Tate Cemetery

The community around these graves never grew past a crossroads. The Handbook of Texas says E. C. Tate, a Confederate veteran, left Gordon County, Georgia, in 1870 and led a wagon train of related families to the ground between Village and Rush creeks, and the settlement took his name. A school and a Baptist church followed in 1882. A 1948 map showed a few scattered houses, and a 1952 description called Tate Springs a church and crossroads. By 1991 Arlington had absorbed it, though the church still met and the burial ground was well kept.

What the plaque says

Tate Cemetery Evan Calloway Tate (1832-1885) brought his family to this area from Georgia in 1870, establishing the Tate Springs community. Land for this cemetery was deeded to the community by Tate heirs in 1894. At that time there were four marked burials, those of E. C. Tate and three of his children. Other members of the Tate family and the Tate Springs community were later interred here. Many of the graves are unmarked. Care of the cemetery was entrusted in later years to family members of those buried here. A fence and entry arch were erected in 1965. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 11 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 12 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 12 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 12 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.

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• Dalworthington Gardens — 1.6 mi
• General Edward H. Tarrant — 2.9 mi
• First Baptist Church of Kennedale — 3.7 mi
• Marrow Bone Spring — 3.8 mi