[1] Plans for the town of Bastrop were laid out in 1830-1831 by empresario Stephen F. Austin’s Land Commissioner Jose Miguel de Arciniega.

The plat made provisions for a public square, a municipal building, a jail, schools, a slaughterhouse and a 12-acre cemetery.

The first marked grave belongs to Crescentia Augusta Fischer, a German immigrant who died in 1841 of yellow fever she contracted in Galveston, Texas, five days before her arrival in Bastrop.

[20] Prior to the project's start, a "ground-truthing" survey, via ground-penetrating radar (GPR), was conducted to identify unmarked graves in the west sector.

[22] Bastrop County Historical Society hosts an annual guided walking tour through Fairview Cemetery.