About this site
McAdams is a cemetery in Walker County, Texas. It is one of 31 cemeteries documented in Walker County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 109 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.7670, -95.7728. The nearest cataloged historic site is McAdams Cemetery (historical marker), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include McAdams Homeplace, Buck Foster Cemetery, and Cook Springs Baptist Church.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7471002205. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
McAdams Cemetery preserves the burial ground of a vanished rural community named for John McAdams Jr., an early settler who had served in the Texas revolutionary army and whose home—reportedly visited at times by Sam Houston—became the nucleus of a village northwest of Huntsville. A McAdams post office opened in 1888, and by 1914 the settlement supported around sixty residents, two cotton gins, and several stores before the post office closed in 1917 and the community faded to little more than its cemetery. The site is recognized by a Texas Historical Commission subject marker documenting the burials of enslaved people interred there.
Sources: mcadamstx.comatlas.thc.texas.gov
