Historic Sacred Spaces and the Jefferson County Historical Commission hosted a dedication ceremony Saturday, April 26, for the newly installed Historic Texas Cemetery marker at Pear Orchard Cemetery.

The oldest recorded burial in the Pear Orchard Cemetery dates to 1956, but the cemetery was likely in use as far back as the 1870s. The cemetery contains 470 surviving headstones, but records show ...

Along Hegele Street in Beaumont’s Pear Orchard Neighborhood sits a complex of four historic cemeteries. They are the Pear Orchard, Blanchette, Nona Colored and Blessed Sacrament Cemeteries and ...

Late last month, over 100 people gathered in the Pear Orchard neighborhood to witness the dedication of the Pear Orchard Cemetery as a Historic Texas Cemetery. The recognition has been bestowed by ...