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A Little History of Flower Mound, Texas

Flower Mound is named for a small, smooth cretaceous mound on the southern line of the John R. Wizwell survey, which rises to a height of some 650 feet - about fifty feet above the surrounding prairie. The name was given in the 1840's (originally named "Long Prairie") because of one particularly abundant growth year, wildflowers frequently being more abundant in one year than another. South of Denton and northwest of Dallas in south central Denton County, Flower Mound is a residential suburban community of 20,000 acres located on the shores of Grapevine Lake. It was established soon after Sam Houston settled a tribal dispute in 1844 and Indian raids in the area ceased.  Attracted by the quality of the soil, which was suitable for raising cotton, corn, and wheat, permanent settlers moved in. The Peters colony named the town for a fifty-foot-high mound covered with Indian paintbrush; the mound was once used by Indians as a holy place.  Flower Mound maintained a steady population throughout the first four decades of the twentieth century and became a substantial farming and cattle-raising community.

There is a legend that nothing may be built on the mound. One legend involves Flower Mound Presbyterian Church. Materials were said to have been stacked on the mound in preparation for the erecting the church building when a tornado swept across the mound, flinging the materials before it. The elders of the church immediately changed site plans. (This does not correspond to known history of the Flower Mound church site.) A similar legend involves a house about to be erected on the mound which was also blown away. The builder quickly moved his homesite to the north side of the mound and there (according to the legend) it stands today. (1973) 

A-Action Home Inspection Group has been serving the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex since 1995. Our multi-inspector firm has performed hundreds of inspections in the City of Flower Mound, Texas.