This paper will demonstrate how the memories shared with us during the preservation of the Bull Hill Cemetery reflected past hegemonic dominance in Marlin and a need for blacks to carve out multiple places of visibility, resistance and ownership within the city’s larger physical and social landscape. It will also highlight the significance of race in the marginalization of black cemeteries in Texas.

This paper will also show how landscapes and memories are contested and subjected to appropriations and imbalances in power. As landscape archaeology can highlight the multivocality of place and space, this paper will convey how work at the Bull Hill Cemetery further contributed to efforts to record and commemorate blacks’ attempts to achieve visibility and equality in Marlin, Texas.