Part of an original school land survey, this parcel was already known as "the cemetery lot" when it was deeded to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1885 for use as a public burial ground. A number of the stones pre-date the 1866 founding of the city of Granbury, the earliest being that of John Edwards (1790-1853). Graves reportedly moved to this site from the Methodist churchyard on the courthouse square make it difficult to know whether some burials were original to the site or were reinterments. In 1873, church leaders chose this hill as the location for a high school that became Granbury College in 1887. After it closed, trustees deeded the school land to the city in 1915, allowing College Hill's full use as a cemetery. Buried here are War of 1812 veteran John Bennett Dickson (1793-1876), who was wounded in the Battle of New Orleans, and other veterans of the U.S.-Mexico War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Brigadier General Hiram B. Granbury (1831-1864), the city's namesake, was reinterred here in 1893; his surname is also recorded as Granberry. The cemetery chronicles the pioneers and generations of families who form the Granbury area's rich heritage.