Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon was a farming community four miles east of Ratcliff off State Highway 7 in eastern Houston County. It was first settled in the late 1840s by Thomas Jefferson Payne and his wife Nancy Warren Payne. In the 1870s their son Henry Warren Payne built a school that also served for many years as a church. The building burned around 1883; residents constructed a new building a short time later and named it Mount Vernon. In the mid-1930s the settlement had a church, a cemetery, and a number of houses. After World War II many of its residents moved away, but in the early 1990s the area still had a church, a cemetery, and a few scattered houses.
Adapted from the official Handbook of Texas, a state encyclopedia developed by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). It is an authoritative source of trusted historical records.
Eliza H. Bishop | © Texas State Historical Association
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Place type
Mount Vernon is classified as a Town
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- Latitude
- 31.40851410
- Longitude
- -95.08743700
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Population Counts
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| Pop. | Year | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 43 | 2009 | Local Officials |