Pioneers Rest is located in the 600 block of Samuels Avenue near its intersection with Cold Springs Road, immediately north of downtown Fort Worth.

[4] Adolphe Gouhenant[5] donated three acres of land on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River for a public cemetery,[6] where the first burials were the eleven soldiers who died (most likely from cholera)[3] in the months after the establishment of the fort.

[8] In 1917 it was discovered that the Pioneers Rest property, long considered a "no-man's land," was actually owned by the City of Fort Worth, which had purchased it in 1880 for $76.

[3] During the Great Depression, Pioneers Rest became a popular campsite for hobos because it was near the railroad, offered dense shrubs as cover, and the Tarrant County Courthouse lawn in downtown Fort Worth had already become overcrowded.

[3] Numerous original Peters Colony settlers, local civic figures, and Civil War veterans are buried at Pioneers Rest.