Old Columbia Cemetery


It may not look like much, but this historic cemetery is the resting place for veterans of every war from the Texas Revolution through to the Gulf War, including a number of historic Texans and members of Stephen F Austin's Old Three Hundred settlers. The land for the cemetery was originally donated by Josiah H Bell out of the very first of the 297 grants issued by Austin in the region.


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