Location: from Fayetteville, take FM 1291 about 14 mile northwest, then take Waldeck Cemetery Road about 0.8 miles east.
Marker Text: This cemetery has served the Waldeck community of German immigrants for over 100 years. Originally known as Long Prairie, the community met in 1866 to erect a school/ church building and to establish a cemetery. Land was acquired from Luis Tittel and Wendel Matejowsky for the cemetery. There were existing graves in the north corner through the earliest marked grave is dated 1871. Burials include many German immigrants and veterans of wars from the civil war to the Vietnam War. This cemetery contains more than 530 graves, and continues to serve the Waldeck community. (1996)