CONGRATULATIONS TO TEXAS EAGLES FOR THE FTF!

HANDICACHE RATING:  H12112

An out-of-the-way country cemetery.  I have visited here several times with a muggle friend and decided today that this place deserves to have living visitors.  The cache container is a fat bison tube hidden in a very obvious place.

ADVISORY NOTE:  BUCKHOLTS IS WELL KNOWN IN THE LOCAL AREA AS A SPEED TRAP.  THEY HAVE NO TOLERANCE FOR SPEEDERS!

HOPE LUTHERAN MEMORIAL PARK

    ANTICIPATING THE NEEDS OF ITS MEMBERS, THE GERMAN EVANGELISCH LUTHERAN HOFFNUNG CHURCH OF BUCKHOLTS PURCHASED THE ORIGINAL 1.5 ACRES FOR THIS BURIAL GROUND FROM THOMAS AND EVA BLINKA IN 1902.  THE GRAVES OF JOSEF NEUMAN (1902-1903) AND J.C. RICHTER (1831-1904) DATE THE CEMETERY'S BEGINNING USE.  IN 1911, THE DEED FOR THE LAND AND ACCESS ROAD WAS FORMALLY RECORDED.  THE HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH CONGREGATION HAS ADDED ACREAGE OVER THE YEARS AND CONTINUED TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS. SINCE 1962, AN ASSOCIATION HAS OVERSEEN THE AFFAIRS AND UPKEEP OF THIS SITE THAT CHRONICLES MUCH OF THE HERITAGE OF THE BUCKHOLTS COMMUNITY.

HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY - 2001