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Pioneer Park Cemetery
The people who founded Dallas are buried next to the bronze herd that mythologizes how Texas wealth moved.
The story
The people who founded Dallas are buried next to the bronze herd that mythologizes how Texas wealth moved.
The oldest cemetery in Dallas sits beside the cattle-drive sculptures — early settlers' graves in the shadow of the Convention Center. Most visitors shoot the bronzes and miss the headstones. Together, plaza and cemetery are the city's origin story compressed into one block.
Sources: Wikimedia — Pioneer Park Cemetery · City of Dallas — Pioneer Plaza listing
Visitor tips
Show up ready.
- Hours: Daylight
- Parking: Convention Center
- Best photo: Headstones with skyline or cattle sculptures behind
- Best time: Morning
- Free: Yes
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Address
Next to Pioneer Plaza / Convention Center, Dallas, TX 75202
Photo credit: LittleT889 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0