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Little School House LbNA #31253

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:May 24, 2007
Location:
City:Arlington
County:Tarrant
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Planted by:Wag Time
Found by: Elwood Fan
Last found:Oct 3, 2009
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:May 24, 2007
P.A. Watson Cemetery is located at 1024 N. Watson Road (SH 360) at Lamar Blvd./Avenue H, on the north-bound access road. The small drive way is just before the light at Lamar Blvd./Avenue H.

The oldest grave in the Watson Cemetery belongs to Mrs. Micajah Goodwin, who was buried in 1846 soon after her family came to this area. Her coffin was made of wood from the family’s wagon bed, and they had to burn brush on top of the grave to hide it from Indians. When Patrick Alfred Watson (1810-1894) of North Carolina bought this land in 1853, he set aside one acre for a cemetery. In 1870, he donated the land for Watson Community’s first school and church. In 1956, the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike was routed around the cemetery and the church was relocated.

Park at the drive-in gate, and walk into the cemetery down the gravel drive to a rose bush on the left side of the drive. Turn left and walk toward the highway to a suffering cedar. Continue toward the highway to a multi-trunk tree, and then to a 6-foot tall nandina bush not far from the cemetery archway sign facing the highway. The nandina is next to two “Wessler” monuments. From the back of the bush (away from the highway), you will find the box in the middle of the base of the bush, wedged in the branches.

Hint: If you do not know what a nandina bush looks like, smaller versions can be found on either side of the drive-through gate.