Cemetery

Smiley Lake Baptist Church

Gonzales County · THC Atlas #7177012405

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About this site

Smiley Lake Baptist Church is a cemetery in Gonzales County, Texas. It is one of 85 cemeteries documented in Gonzales County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 186 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.2638, -97.6387. The nearest cataloged historic site is Smiley Lake and Townsite, Old (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Smiley Latin American, Smiley United Methodist Church, and First Baptist Church of Smiley.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7177012405. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

This Baptist cemetery serves Smiley, once known as Smiley Lake, a community established in southwestern Gonzales County in the early 1870s that had both Baptist and Methodist churches by the 1890s. It lies just west of the separate Smiley Latin American Cemetery.

Sources: texasalmanac.com findagrave.com

📍 29.2638, -97.6387 · Gonzales County

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Historical Marker

Smiley Lake and Townsite, Old

Smiley · 1980

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Historical Marker

Smiley United Methodist Church

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Historical Marker

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