Wagram Cemetery

Wagram was settled between about 1865 and 1870 by German and Anglo families, soon after nearby Fredonia. Its first name, Blue Stretch, is said to have come from early settler Dick Barton, and it became Wagram when Cap Bellows opened the post office in January 1906. The community had a combined school and church, a cotton and flour mill, a gin, a general store and a milliner. After the store burned in the 1930s the town declined: the church moved, the school joined Fredonia's, and by 1939 only the Church of Christ building remained.

What the plaque says

Wagram Cemetery This cemetery was created to serve settlers of the Blue Stretch Community, which became known as Wagram when the post office opened in 1906. This cemetery was established alongside the community schoolhouse. The first marked burial is that of three-month old Marion Eaker Miller (d. 1880). Several graves marked by uncarved rocks may predate the 1880 burial. Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Goodall transferred the land to the Blue Stretch Community in 1897 for burial purposes. The cemetery continues to serve the community today and is maintained by a perpetual care cemetery association. (2002)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Mason — 12 mi
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• Llano County Courthouse Square — 29 mi
  The 1893 Romanesque courthouse on Llano's square, built after a fire at the height of a boom that was meant to make the granite town an iron city.

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