Walker County History
Presented by the Walker County Historical Commission
The Commission
Walker County Historical
Commission
1301 Sam Houston Ave.
Rm. 218
Huntsville, TX 77340
(Courthouse Annex)
Telephone
(936) 435-2497
WCHC Online
Send email
Meetings
3rd Monday of each month
5:30 P.M.
(except June & August)
Walker County Museum
Museum
Gibbs-Powell Home
1228 11 St. at Avenue M
Huntsville, TX
Hours
Tues-Fri 12-5 PM
Sat 12-4 PM
Commission meetings,
and by appointment
Telephone
(936) 435-2497
(936) 291-9726
Tours
(936) 291-3581
(leave message)
(936) 291-5931
(Statue Visitors Center)
Smart Phone Cemetery Tours
You can take a tour of Oakwood Cemetery using your smart phone. If you have an Apple iPhone 4 with GPS capability, you can use the free MapBook app to locate points of interest. If you have a Droid or other smart phone, you can access the tour via Google maps using your browser.
Take an iPhone Tour Using MapBook App
If you have an iPhone, you can view Cemetery tour information using the app MapBook, which can be downloaded from the Apple App Store. Here is all you have to do:
- Open MapBook.
- Tap the "+" key at the upper left of the screen.
- Tap "FInd User Posts" from the menu at the bottom of the screen.
- Enter "Oakwood Cemetery Tour" in the search bar at the top of the screen and tap "Search".
- Tap "Oakwood Cemetery Tour" when it appears in the search list.
- Tap "Import" at the top right of the screen.
- Tap "Map" at the bottom right of the screen to see map pins of the points of interest.
- Unpinch the screen to show a smaller view.
- Tap any map pin to show its name and the ">" to see a description and a photo.
- Use the GPS location spot to navigate to a point of interest.
Google Map Tour
You can view a tour of points of interest in the Cemetery on Google Maps using either your computer or smart phone browser by clicking the link below. Click the "+" slider to magnify the map and click on any map pin or camera icon to view information on the point of interest. Camera icons indicate that a photograph is available.
Google Map Tour