Details for Millwood and Millwood Cemetery

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5085006186

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Marker Number 6186
Atlas Number 5085006186
Marker Title Millwood and Millwood Cemetery
Index Entry Millwood and Millwood Cemetery
Address
City
County Collin
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 740524
UTM Northing 3653555
Subject Codes cemetery; lumber topics; settlements; ghost towns
Marker Year 1994
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location 4.25 miles south and east of Lavon on FM 2755, then about 1/2 mile south and west on CR 535 to Cemetery
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Text 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)

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