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| The last standing structure in Double Mountain Photo courtesy Jack Williams, 2002 |
Double Mountain, Texas History
Double Mountain was on a local road a mile west of Farm Road 2211 and ten miles west of Aspermont in west central Stonewall County. The settlement, originally called Jackson by its first settlers in 1886, was renamed Double Mountain several months later. A post office was established there in June of that year, with John M. Lee as postmaster. By 1892 a sheriff, justice of the peace, and county commissioner were among the residents of the community. In 1905 its post office was moved from the Lee home to the Matthews home, which became a gathering place for area ranchers. Although locally known as Double Mountain, the post office name was formally changed to Lingo in 1905. It was discontinued in 1908 and moved to Aspermont. Double Mountain developed little beyond the post office and the Baptist and Methodist churches organized there in 1897 and 1898, respectively. A Double Mountain school was in existence by 1899; after it burned, classes were held in the Beulah Baptist Church until a new one-room school was built in 1914. The community had lost its identity long before the 1980s, when county highway maps indicated only a Double Mountain cemetery about two miles west of Stinking Creek.Handbook of Texas Online, Charles G. Davis, "DOUBLE MOUNTAIN, TX," accessed December 15, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvd52.
Stonewall County 1907 postal map showing Lingo
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy Texas General Land Office
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A potted plant in back of the building Photo courtesy Jack Williams, 2002 |
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Double Mountain, Texas Forum
- My family lived in the old house, close to the mountains, that was shown in your article.
My Dad was Walter Franklin Collom, one of 14 children in the Collom clan close to Aspermont. He was killed in 1943, and my Mother, Flossie, sister Faye, and little brother Tracy, moved to the little farm my Dad had purchased a few miles out of Denton, in Aubrey, Texas. The copperheads were as bad in Aubrey, as the rattlesnakes had been in Peacock and Aspermont. I will be in Aspermont over the Labor Day weekend for the Collom reunion. It is very sad that only one son of the family of 14 will be there.
My double cousin, Jean Collom, sent the picture, and the other information in your article. Thanks, Grady F. Collom, August 15, 2006 - Subject: Double Mountain, Texas
My name is William meadows. I am a professor at Missouri State University in Springfield. I am about to publish a work on Kiowa Indian geography and place names and am trying to locate a clear picture of Double Mountain (the actual mountain) and permission to use it in my book. Do you know of anyone that might be able to assist me with this? If any one has some clear photos at 300 dpi (or even 600), I would appreciate them and would be happy to credit them for the photos. I would like to have something within the next 4 months, but I am flexible. Thank you so much. - William Meadows, Missouri State University, WilliamMeadows@MissouriState.edu, February 09, 2007
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