Cemetery

unknown (Tigertown)**

Lamar County · THC Atlas #7277004805

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About this site

unknown (Tigertown)** is a cemetery in Lamar County, Texas. It is one of 39 cemeteries documented in Lamar County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 115 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 33.7083, -95.8055. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cottonwood (cemetery), about 1.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Persimmon Grove and Capt. Hill's Military Camp, Mt. Vernon, and Smiley-Woodfin Native Prairie Grassland.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7277004805. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

This cemetery lies at Tigertown, a community on Sanders Creek about sixteen miles northwest of Paris in northwestern Lamar County. Originally called Cothran's Store for an early family, the settlement became known as Tigertown, reportedly after a circus poster in a local saloon, and by the 1890s it had general stores, a cotton gin, physicians, and Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Maps from the 1930s show a cemetery among the community's school, hotel and sawmills, and a burial ground still marked the site in later decades as the town declined.

Sources: tshaonline.org lamarcountytx.org

📍 33.7083, -95.8055 · Lamar County

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Nearby in Lamar County

Persimmon Grove and Capt. Hill's Military Camp

State Highway 5 Bridge at High Creek (Gone)

Brookston · 1996

Historical Marker

Smiley-Woodfin Native Prairie Grassland

State Highway Bridge 5 at Big Pine Creek (Gone)

Brookston · 1996