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MOUNT OLIVE,
TEXAS
Mills County, Texas
Hill Country
10 miles NE of Goldthwaite
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Mount Olive Cemetery established 1901
Photos courtesy Jim and Lou Kinsey |
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Mount
Olive Tabernacle
Photos courtesy Jim and Lou Kinsey |
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Mount
Olive Primitive Baptist Church
Photos courtesy Jim and Lou Kinsey |
Just
down the road from Mount Olive is Caradan
Cemetery
Mount Olive History - From The Handbook of Texas Online.
Mount Olive was at the site of the mountain from which its gets its
name, ten miles northeast of Goldthwaite in eastern Mills County.
The community was established in 1877; early settlers included John
Neal, J. J. Wilcox, and Thomas Huckabee, Sr. At its height, the Mount
Olive community had a store, a school, and several churches. The community
declined rapidly in the first part of the 1900s, but its school remained
until 1947, when it was consolidated with those of Goldthwaite. By
the 1980s Mount Olive had been abandoned.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Flora Gatlin Bowles, A No Man's Land Becomes a County
(Austin: Steck, 1958).
Julius A. Amin
www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/MM/htm26.html |
Mount Olive
Texas Forum
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