Historical Marker
Brushy Mound
Marker installed: 1968
Community surrounding a Methodist Church built 1891. Named for dogwood brush then covering area. In 1885 the Brushy Mound School was founded. Miss Mollie Wood was first teacher.
Present church was built in 1917. The school was consolidated with East Delta Independent District in 1949.
The discovery of oil in 1901 near Beaumont, Texas, sparked an oil boom that transformed the state's economy and led to the rise of the modern petroleum industry.