The Century-Old Wimberley Cemetery

The post office settled the village's name. In January 1880 the San Marcos postmaster, Alfred vom Stein, applied for a post office here under the name Wimberleyville, but the name granted was simply Wimberley. The settlement had been a small trading post when Hays County was organized in 1848. The mill that gave it its successive names ceased operating in 1925 and was torn down in 1934; a bank later stood on its site. By 1985 Wimberley had three schools, eleven churches and fifty businesses, and its monthly Market Days drew visitors.

What the plaque says

The Century-Old Wimberley Cemetery This land was first patented to Amasa Turner in 1847. Settlers erected a log cabin here which served as a church and school facility. Worship services were conducted by circuit riders. In 1876 Melissa Wimberley, young daughter of Pleasant Wimberley, died and was buried on the church grounds. John H. and Callie Saunders bought the property in 1885 and gave one acre for a community cemetery. Later, additional land was given by the family of John R. Dobie. W. W. Moon (1814-1897), first permanent settler in Hays County, is buried here. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 12 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.
• Gruene Historic District — 18 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.
• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 21 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.
• Pedernales Falls State Park — 23 mi
  The Pedernales stepping down over layered limestone east of Johnson City, a river that can turn from a placid stream to a torrent in minutes.

More markers nearby

• John Henry Saunders Homestead — 0.3 mi
• Wimberley Mills — 0.5 mi
• Driftwood Cemetery — 9.3 mi
• Agricultural Society of Fischer — 10 mi