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Mount Calm Cemetery

Mount Calm, Limestone County

Marker Text

Settlers began arriving in this part of Limestone County in the 1850s. Soon Mount Calm community developed with a Masonic Lodge, stores, post office, school, and churches. James Samuel Kimmel, a pioneer settler, donated land for this cemetery, and the first marked grave is dated 1870. In 1881, when the Texas & St. Louis Railway bypassed the village, residents moved north to the railroad line and began New Mount Calm in Hill County. The cemetery, which has been enlarged and is still in use, is all that remains of the earlier settlement. 1984

Marker Details

Address CR 102
Location Description Mount Calm Cemetery, 2 miles S of Mount Calm on LCR 106 then 1/4 mile W on LCR 102, between Mount Calm and Prairie Hill. Marker reported damaged May 2023.
Marker # 3487
Dedicated 1984
Size, Type 18" x 28"
Code cemetery; communities; railroads
Latitude, Longitude 31.734131, -96.87492

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