​Good Hope Cemetery

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Marker No: 14550

Texas Historical Cemetery Marker

Marker Text: ​ German and Wendish settlers founded Good Hope community in the 1880s and established a school by 1887. The earliest marker grave in the community cemetery, dated 1889, is for Dora Vick. George Kruse, also buried here ran a rock quarry across the road that supplied fill stone for construction of the Galveston seawall. A spur of the Houston & Texas Central carried the rock to the coastal city. Good Hope Cemetery contains 12 known graves; several tombstones bear German inscriptions. (2003) 

Geographic: 30.14243, -96.85147

Location: ​Take US Highway 290 east of Giddings, Texas. Turn right on County Road 226 and go 3.8 miles to cemetery on left.