Cemetery

Arcola Community

Arcola · Fort Bend County · THC Atlas #7157005703

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About this site

Arcola Community is a cemetery in Arcola, Fort Bend County. It is one of 136 cemeteries documented in Fort Bend County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 236 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.4780, -95.4868 near Arcola. The nearest cataloged historic site is Lawson Family (cemetery), about 1.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Duke-Fenn Family, Claude Broussard Jr. Grave, and McKeever.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7157005703. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Arcola Community Cemetery, also recorded as Sienna Plantation Cemetery (FB-C057), is a small inactive burial ground of about 1.75 acres in Fort Bend County, with its earliest known grave dating to 1921. It served the Arcola community, which developed largely among freed people on lands that had been Jonathan Dawson Waters's large cotton and sugar plantation, acquired in 1850.

Sources: fortbendcountytx.gov tshaonline.org

📍 29.4780, -95.4868 · Arcola, Fort Bend County

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Claude Broussard Jr. Grave