Cemetery

Pleasant Holly

Cherokee County · THC Atlas #7073008405

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About this site

Pleasant Holly is a cemetery in Cherokee County, Texas. It is one of 169 cemeteries documented in Cherokee County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 287 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.8026, -95.0395. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cornelius (cemetery), about 1.4 miles away. Others within a short drive include Woodville, Looney, and Macedonia.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7073008405. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Pleasant Holly Cemetery is a historic African American cemetery in Cherokee County, in the vicinity of Rusk. It is documented among the county's cemetery surveys as one of the burial grounds serving the region's Black communities.

Sources: texascemeteries.org historic.one

📍 31.8026, -95.0395 · Cherokee County

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Nearby in Cherokee County

Rusk/Shady Grove Community