Dye Mound Cemetery

By one account the community grew around J. D. Bybee's general store after settlement in 1880, and a post office branch operated there from 1884 to 1905. Dye, as the Handbook of Texas lists it, was a center for area farmers rather than a town. It sits on a spur off Farm Road 3206, ten miles southeast of Montague. No population estimates were published from the late 1940s through the 1990s. By 1961 only three dwellings and a church stood in the vicinity, and the 1983 county highway map still showed a cemetery.

What the plaque says

Dye Mound Cemetery 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)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Stonewall Saloon Museum — 6.8 mi
  Saint Jo's first permanent building, a stone saloon of 1873 with rooms upstairs for trail drovers, in a town named, the story goes, as a joke on a founder who did not drink.

More markers nearby

• Head of Elm (Saint Jo) — 6.8 mi
• Forestburg — 6.8 mi
• Town of Saint Jo — 7.0 mi
• Montague Cemetery — 7.4 mi