Cemetery

Las Rusias Memorial

Cameron County · THC Atlas #7061011405

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About this site

Las Rusias Memorial is a cemetery in Cameron County, Texas. It is one of 70 cemeteries documented in Cameron County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 207 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 26.0551, -97.7598. The nearest cataloged historic site is Las Rucias (historical marker), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Weaver Cemetery #2, Moreno Cemetery, and Los Indios Cemetery.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7061011405. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Las Rucias Memorial Cemetery serves the colonia of Las Rusias in southwestern Cameron County, near U.S. 281 beside Sacred Heart Catholic Church about nine miles southwest of Harlingen. The community sits at a historically charged spot — a clash between U.S. and Mexican troops nearby on April 25, 1846, helped ignite the Mexican War, and a Civil War skirmish was fought there on June 25, 1864. The cemetery holds well over a thousand graves.

Sources: tshaonline.org

📍 26.0551, -97.7598 · Cameron County

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