Glenwood Cemetery

03/20/2026

🌸The spring equinox marks the start of spring and a time when day and night are nearly equal. In many communities, this season is also a time to visit cemeteries and honor loved ones.
☀️Families often take the opportunity to clean headstones, remove winter decorations, place fresh flowers, and spend a few quiet moments reflecting. With the change in season, it’s a natural time to care for these spaces and remember those who came before us.
🦋As we move into longer days and warmer weather, the equinox can serve as a simple reminder to pause and reflect. 🌿

03/18/2026

We’re so excited to join and at Old, Weird Houston this Saturday, 3/21 from 12–5!

Join us for a look at some of the city’s more unusual stories, overlooked history, and unexpected details that make Houston what it is.

Bring a friend and come explore with us. We’d love to see you there!

03/14/2026

03/13/2026

The Pipevine Swallowtail is one of the most eye-catching butterflies you’ll see in North America. Its dark wings shine with an iridescent blue in the sunlight, and the bright orange spots underneath make it easy to recognize in flight.

It gets its name from the pipevine plant, which its caterpillars rely on for food. Pipevine contains natural toxins, and the caterpillars absorb them as they grow. Those toxins stay in their bodies into adulthood, helping protect them from predators.

You can usually spot these butterflies in spring and summer around gardens, meadows, and wooded areas. Planting native pipevine is a great way to support their life cycle and create habitat for pollinators in your community. 🦋

03/03/2026

The Great Egret is a large white wading bird commonly found in wetlands and along shorelines. During breeding season, it develops a bright green patch between the eye and bill and grows long, delicate plumes along its back.

In the late 1800s, those plumes were highly sought after in the fashion industry, and the species was hunted nearly to extinction as feathers were once sold for more than gold by weight. Conservation protections helped the population recover.

Great Egrets migrate each year, and we typically see them from spring through fall. While they often spend much of their time alone, breeding season brings them together in large nesting groups called rookeries, sometimes shared with other egrets, herons, and other wading birds.

03/02/2026

Texas Independence Day commemorates the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836. This vital document, signed by 59 delegates, marked the official declaration of independence from Mexico by the settlers in Mexican Texas, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Texas. To honor this day, we would like to recognize some notable veterans buried at Glenwood who played crucial roles in Texas's fight for independence.

03/01/2026

February brought sunshine and a hint of spring to Glenwood ☀️🌿

From warm afternoons on the grounds to beautiful golden hours, this month felt like a preview of what’s ahead. On to March 🤍✨

02/22/2026

On National Wildlife Day, we celebrate the landscapes, habitats, and quiet moments that make Glenwood so unique. We’re grateful to steward a space where nature continues to thrive. 💚

02/19/2026

A most beautiful City of the Dead

In 1883, Houston's Glenwood Cemetery was still a young landscape, but it was already earning extraordinary praise. The Houston Post wrote that no city in the South or Southwest could boast a cemetery so beautiful.

Planned, improved, and carefully maintained, Glenwood was compared to the nation's great rural cemeteries and celebrated for its stately trees, flowering grounds, and picturesque setting. This article marked the first time Glenwood was described as "a most beautiful City of the Dead," a phrase that captured its emerging identity as both a place of burial and a cultural landscape.

02/17/2026

Upcoming Tour🌿

This two-hour, docent-guided walking tour led by focuses on the lives and legacies of some of Glenwood’s most notable women, whose influence stretches from the suffrage movement to the silver screen.

Featured figures include Charlotte Allen, wife of Houston co-founder Augustus Allen; suffragists Annette Finnigan and Florence Sterling; publisher and stateswoman Oveta Culp Hobby, who led the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II; and movie star Gene Tierney.

Together, their stories offer a powerful lens on how women helped shape Houston’s civic, cultural, and political life.

📅 Saturday, February 28th | 10 AM - 12 PM
📍 Glenwood Cemetery
🔗 Register: https://www.preservationhouston.org

02/16/2026

02/15/2026

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