Dye Mound Cemetery
Saint Jo, Montague County, Texas
Marker Inscription
The Dye Mound Community was founded in the late 1850s and named for a trapper who owned a trading post at the foot of the hills. In 1889, Dye Mound Cemetery trustees bought more than three acres of land from S.T. Boswell and his wife. The town continued to grow and its first church building was completed in 1890. By the late 1920s, this once thriving community began to decline, and by 1956, only remnants of a ghost town remained. The Dye Mound Cemetery, however, still serves the area as a reminder of the early cotton town. (1984)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
The Dye Mound community took shape in the late 1850s, named for a trapper who kept a trading post at the foot of the hills. Cemetery trustees bought more than three acres in 1889, and the growing cotton town raised its first church by 1890. Decline set in by the late 1920s, and by 1956 only a ghost town remained—though the cemetery still serves the area.
Why it matters
Dye Mound is a quiet marker of the cotton-town boom and bust that emptied so much of the rural Texas countryside.
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