Terryville Community Cemetery in Hamon, Texas

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Get directions Hamon, Texas, USA

Coordinates: 29.39534, -97.40771
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Located in Gonzales County (A-30). At the end of the Civil War, plantation owners wanted their former slaves to vacate the plantation lands. The Negroes didn't want to leave because they had nowhere to go, so, the plantation owners got together and gave the now freed Negroes a five mile long stretch of land and evicted them from the plantations to this five acre stretch which included the 'burying ground' for slaves dying on the plantations over the years. Over time, the various families moved on and their land was bought back by the local ranchers. All that is left of that original five miles is a one acre tract that is the Terryville Negro Cemetery.