Rockwall’s Historic African American Veterans Cemetery Receives State Recognition After Four-Year Effort

By Editor on May 11, 2026 2:50 PM   Fate, Featured Stories, Good Cause, Heath, McLendon-Chisholm, Recent Stories, Rockwall, Royse City  

ROCKWALL, TX (May 11, 2026) The Rockwall Breakfast Rotary Club and the Rockwall County Historical Commission have been diligently working, with support from the Texas Historical Commission, for four years in order to designate a local cemetery as a Texas Historical Landmark. Originally known as Gardenhire Cemetery, the efforts of Rockwall Breakfast Rotary’s committee, chaired […]