Small cemetery near Hwy 71/Airport

Anyone know the story behind that small plot which has about 8 or so headstones? If you're heading west on Hwy 71 from the airport and you go north on 183 there's a small plot in the middle of the interchange. It looks to be at least 50 to 70 years old and measures about 20ft by 30ft. There appears to be no way to access it unless you pull off onto the left shoulder of the interchange loop.

So it's the northwest section of the 71/183 interchange.

 

No answer, but I've often wondered about that, too. I hope someone knows.

 

This is probably the best place to look, although I wish they were plotted on a map.

 

That's an old family farm cemetery that was there well before the road construction almost 50 years ago.

The orginal cemetery was actually a few feet lower than it is now - the Highway Dept. having buried it deeper with the newer land contours - then the iron fence & stone markers were place over the approximate location.

Just looked at it on Google Earth.

That's what I recall from reading about it back at that time.

 

Thanks, ScoPro. That's what I figured. However, I have wondered why they didn't move them? Seems like an odd thing to leave there with no access.

Maybe their descendents just throw flowers out of their car window as they drive by?

 

The family may have died out 100 years ago, who knows? It's nice that the contractors (or maybe family) planted a tree or two next to it when that work was done. Originally there were no trees there when the construction was finished.

I always like to look for it when we return home from an out of town flight.

 

I've had some email exchanges with host of the website that MilkmanDan listed. Great find by the way.

Apparently it's this oneThe Link even though the info about being north of the Colorado River is incorrect. The actual street address, 1200 Bastrop Hwy, is essentially on the nose.

I recently rode my bike past another unexpected location for a cemetery, in the middle of Allendale neighborhood.The Link
It's just as old.

 

Whoa, that Allendale cemetary is about a block off my jogging trail I've been running for 5 yrs, never even heard of it. Will check it out after work.

 

Same here. My grandmother lived two blocks north of that cemetery on Vine and I had no idea it was there.

 

If you ever go to Pedernales Falls St. Park, take the long trail across the river. On the way back, at the very back of the park, is a very old cemetary. Kinda creepy but also kind of cool. A lot of the graves are unmarked, and are just sunken holes in the ground. I usually stop there and have a snack and honor the dead.