The rural community of Creagleville began in the 1840s and was named for German native Henry Creagle (1826-1872), who settled in Van Zandt County about 1847. Located on the Dallas-Shreveport Road, a major east-west thoroughfare across the north part of the county that bisected Henry Creagle's land survey, the community was used by farmers, immigrants, freight wagons, and stock drovers. By 1854, a school had been founded and a schoolhouse built near the Creagle home. As the agricultural settlement grew, homes were built, a church was established, a cotton gin and gristmill were erected, and a cemetery was established. In 1879, B.F. Wheeler deeded three acres for the original cemetery, though burials had begun earlier. The community later declined as residents moved away; the school was consolidated with Grand Saline in 1941, and the church closed in 1991. The cemetery remains active and contains burials of more than 50 Civil War veterans, early settlers, and their descendants.