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Old Oakland Cemetery

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Roans Prairie, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 30° 34' 0.849108", -95° 56' 34.435248"
 
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    Founded in 1867 in connection with the Oakland Baptist Church, which stood here until moved to Roans Prairie in 1913. Graves of many pioneers are located here. Oakland was once a popular way-station for the Bates and Black Stagecoach Lines, which ran from Austin to Huntsville until 1880. This road, known as Coushatta Trace, was originally a trail of the Coushatta Indians, a friendly tribe that hunted in this territory. In 1838, a Mrs. Taylor, the last known person killed by Indians in Grimes County, was murdered not far from this site.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

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