Cemetery

Benavides

Duval County · THC Atlas #7131001105

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About this site

Benavides is a cemetery in Duval County, Texas. It is one of 31 cemeteries documented in Duval County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 36 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 27.5926, -98.4121. The nearest cataloged historic site is Piedras Pintas (cemetery), about 2.5 miles away. Others within a short drive include Tinney Piedras Pintas, La Mota de Olmos Cemetery, and Antonio Lopez Family Cemetery.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7131001105. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Benavides Cemetery serves the town of Benavides in south-central Duval County, a community that grew up around the railroad in the early 1880s. The town was founded about 1880 and named for the prominent Benavides family; Placido Benavides donated eighty acres to the community in 1881. Benavides developed into a shipping and trade center for the surrounding ranching region, and its cemetery holds many of the families who built the town.

Sources: tshaonline.org pacweb.alamo.edu

📍 27.5926, -98.4121 · Duval County

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Nearby in Duval County

Tinney Piedras Pintas

Duval County

Historical Marker

La Mota de Olmos Cemetery

Benavides · 2010

Cemetery

Antonio Lopez Family Cemetery