Save Austin’s Cemeteries proudly preserves five separate cemeteries in partnership with the City of Austin. Click on the ‘More Info’ buttons associated with each cemetery for detailed resources and information! For a list of all cemeteries city burials from 1866 to 1921, courtesy of the Austin History Center, please click here to be taken to the Sexton Records.
Austin Memorial Park Cemetery was established in 1927 by a private corporation and had its first recorded burial in April 1928.
Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1926 to serve Austin’s African American community. Highland Park Cemetery, which in now a part of Evergreen, was established in 1891.
LONGVIEW CEMETERY
The City of Austin inherited two family cemeteries while purchasing park lands. The Longview Cemetery is within the grounds of Longview Park in South Austin, right next to a basketball court.
Oakwood Cemetery was originally established in 1839 and named “City Cemetery.” At that time it was just northeast of the original town plat. In 1856, the Texas legislature granted the property to the City of Austin.
Oakwood Cemetery Annex was established in 1915 after the adjacent Oakwood Cemetery ran out of lots for sale and space for pauper burials. It takes up 18.2 acres and holds 18,000 burials.
Plummers Cemetery, an 8 acre property, was originally a privately-owned cemetery likely established before 1898, the date of the oldest gravestone still standing there. The City of Austin acquired Plummers Cemetery in 1957 as a condition of the purchase of land for Givens Park.
STANLEY-NOLEN CEMETERY
The Stanley-Nolen Cemetery is one of two family cemeteries located within the borders of a city park. Acquired by the City of Austin in 1961 this old, settler cemetery was part of a tract purchased from the Stanley heirs for the development of Garrison Park. There are only two known gravestones in this cemetery. They may or may not be in their original location.