Millwood and Millwood Cemetery

Millwood's first lumber was cut by hand. M. L. Foote, writing in 1929, remembered men digging a pit about six feet deep on Camp Creek and rolling a log across it, then sawing boards with one man in the pit and one on top. Later James Smith financed a flour mill powered by about eight oxen walking an inclined wheel, before a boiler and engine made it a steam mill. The Handbook of Texas ties the town's start to the 1849 gold rush, when travelers bought supplies at Drury Anglin's farm.

What the plaque says

Millwood and Millwood Cemetery Named for a lumber mill established nearby about 1846, Millwood contained a post office, several businesses, and lumber, grist, and flour mills by the early 1850s. Although Willie O. Hunt's burial in 1864 is the first recorded here, local tradition claims this cemetery began in 1854 with the death of Nancy Bulloch, wife of James W. Bulloch, hero of the Battle of Nacogdoches. Early accounts refer to it as Nancy Bulloch Cemetery. The town prospered until the early 1900s. Millwood Cemetery, maintained by a local association, is all that remains of the former town of Millwood. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rockwall County Historical Foundation & Museum — 4.6 mi
  A small museum in Harry Myers Park that keeps the evidence on Rockwall's rock wall, sandstone dikes that geologists call natural and folk tales call built.
• Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary — 16 mi
  A 289-acre sanctuary in McKinney that Bessie Heard founded at the age of 80, with five habitats, a 50-acre wetland and 6.5 miles of trails.
• No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum — 21 mi
  A free museum at Terrell's airport where about 2,200 RAF cadets learned to fly between 1941 and 1945, with logbooks, uniforms, letters and original training aircraft.
• Audie Murphy / American Cotton Museum — 21 mi
  A Greenville museum of Hunt County's military heroes, including Audie Murphy, and of cotton, which keeps the engine of what it says was the world's largest inland cotton compress.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Lavon — 2.2 mi
• Lavon School — 2.3 mi
• Lavon — 2.4 mi
• Abston Cemetery — 3.7 mi