- City:
- Cherokee, TX
- Site Type:
- Cemeteries, Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Started:
- 1939
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Among the improvements hoped to be undertaken in the proposed NYA project include 316 feet of cement sidewalk 4 feet wide in front of the cemetery, 2 large columns at the double gate, with an arched entrance; 824 feet of cement curbing for driveway, 824 feet curbing for flower beds, pruning trees and white-washing them along driveway, graveling all grave mounds, fixing markers and clearing and beautifying entire cemetery.
Saw evidence of a rock wall, a rock building, columns at the double gate with a steps at the left side, and an arched entrance with name.
Source notes
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22436815/cherokee_cemetery/ (The San Saba News and Star, 10 Aug 1939)
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on October 18, 2018.
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