Historic Immanuel Lutheran Church (411 County Road 401 in Taylor) sits among a group of small farms and homesteads located between the Samsung Austin Semiconductor fabrication plant and U.S. Highway 79. The area is surrounded by construction, and a proposed new development has some people worried about flooding impact on the church’s graveyard.
“Over the last 20 years we’ve seen the erosion that has happened to that hill next to the cemetery. We have this big hole on our property that holds water but if we do anything we could wash out a graveyard. So, when you’re talking about building these structures on the edge there where the graveyard and our property meet that could be substantial,” property owner Terry Miller told the Taylor Planning and Zoning Commission at its April 8 meeting.
Miller owns property abutting the cemetery and said her family cannot develop on their land for fear of damaging the cemetery, which dates from 1888.
