Copperas Cemetery - Copperas Community, Kimble County, TX
N 30° 30.015 W 099° 58.672
14R E 406161 N 3374625
Travelers along the old Spanish Trail would have gone right past this beautiful rural cemetery as they made their way from Junction to Roosevelt.
Waymark Code: WMTTWT
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/07/2017
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Copperas Cemetery is located just a few yards off of the Old Spanish Trail auto route.
After the US 290 designation was dropped in this part of west Texas with the completion of the I-10, this section of the OST was redesignated as FM 1674, and has ever since been used as part of a network of frontage and local-access roads supporting the I-10.
Visitors to this cemetery in the OST era (like modern visitors) would have found veterans of many conflicts at rest here: Civil War veterans from the North AND South, veterans of the Indian Wars of the 1870s, veterans of the Spanish-American war, and of course WWI and WWII. The graves of three Texas Rangers are here, including that of famed Ranger Captain Cully Gowsert.
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Distinctive or Significant Interest
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Address of Waymark:
FM 1674 at Copperas
Copperas, TX
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