Construction of Whitney Dam led to the creation of this cemetery in 1950 for the reinterment of 1260 graves from six historic cemeteries in Hill and Bosque Counties. Before Lake Whitney inundated several pioneer cemeteries, all gravesites and monuments were moved here and placed on nearly 24 acres purchased for Brazos Valley graves. The Captain Wilson Cemetery had originally been located about six miles southwest of Whitney and was named for Civil War veteran and politician J.M.C. Wilson; its earliest documented burial dated from 1857. The Walling Bend Cemetery, dating from 1863, was named for Jesse Walling, who served in the Texas Legislature. The two Schuler Place cemeteries stood on the Bosque County side of Lake Whitney and contained 14 graves, many of them from the Basye family. The cemetery that served the Towash community had been located about five miles west of Whitney, and its earliest known burial was that of A.J. and J.J. Dyer in 1864; their descendants included a member of the Texas Legislature, the first Chief Justice of Hill County, and owners of a flour and grist mill. The Degraffenreid graveyard, about three miles west of Whitney, was the largest of the six cemeteries moved, with 685 graves.