Cemetery

Wynne Unit Cemetery on Holliday Unit

Walker County · THC Atlas #7471006505

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About this site

Wynne Unit Cemetery on Holliday Unit 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 30.7238, -95.5787. The nearest cataloged historic site is Houston, Sam (historical marker), about 0.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include H.E.A.R.T.S., Texas Prison Musuem, and First United Methodist Church of Huntsville.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7471006505. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

This burial ground, part of the Texas prison system's Wynne Unit and located within the perimeter of the adjacent Holliday Unit near Huntsville, holds the graves of incarcerated men, a number of them marked simply as 'unknown.' The Wynne Unit traces to 1883, when Texas purchased what became its first state prison farm, naming it for John Magruder Wynne, a member of the prison system's Board of Trustees.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org findagrave.com

📍 30.7238, -95.5787 · Walker County

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