Historical Marker
Site of Early Grayson County Settlement - Whitemound
Historical marker location:
Tom Bean, Texas
( On FM 902, in Whitemound community, just west of Tom Bean)
Marker installed: 1967
Named for two large white mounds of rock nearby. Settled 1849 by Henry Lackey and his 9 children, from Missouri. Town grew up around A. S. Lackey grist mill. It had a post office, churches, businesses, several doctors, and Bosworth Academy.
Most residents moved away after Cotton Belt Railroad bypassed this site in 1888.