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When the church burned to the ground in 1883, residents quickly built a replacement called Mount Vernon. The community included a church, a cemetery, and many homes by the middle of the 1930s. Many of its population left the area after World War II , although there was still a church, a cemetery, and a few dispersed homes there in the early 1990s.
Mount Vernon is located at the center of Franklin County. U.S. Route 67 passes through the northern side of town as Main Street, leading east 16 miles (26 km) to Mount Pleasant and west 23 miles (37 km) to Sulphur Springs.
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This list of cemeteries in Texas includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Mount Kenton Cemetery: Paducah: Kentucky: 36 Richard Nixon [88] April 22, 1994: Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum: Yorba Linda: California: 37 Lyndon B. Johnson [89] January 22, 1973: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park: Stonewall: Texas: 38 Hubert Humphrey [90] January 13, 1978: Lakewood Cemetery: Minneapolis: Minnesota: 39 ...
Location of Franklin County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Texas. There are four properties listed on the National Register in the county.
A glimpse of downtown Vernon, with Waggoner National Bank in the left background The Red River Valley Museum is located on the Vernon College campus. Vernon is a city and the county seat of Wilbarger County, Texas, United States. [4] and as of the 2010 Census had a population of 11,002.
On Tuesday, April 10, 1979, a widespread and destructive outbreak of severe weather impacted areas near the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas. Thunderstorms developed over West and North Central Texas during the day within highly unstable atmospheric conditions following the northward surge of warm and moist air into the region, producing large hail, strong winds, and multiple tornadoes.