Mount Vernon, Houston County, Texas
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Mount Vernon, Houston County, Texas | |
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  Mount Vernon  Mount Vernon | |
| Coordinates: 31°24′31″N 95°05′15″W / 31.40861°N 95.08750°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Texas |
| County | Houston |
| Elevation | 351 ft (107 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 936 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2034826[1] |
Mount Vernon is a ghost town in Houston County, Texas, United States.[1]
Thomas Jefferson Payne and his wife Nancy Warren Payne established it for the first time in the late 1840s. 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.[2]
