Cedar
Mills was a trading post and one of the earliest settlements in Grayson County. The community was located thirty miles northeast of
Whitesboro, north of Gordonville and on the banks of the Red River.
Along springs grist mills sprang up. People came to
get their corn ground. First known as Cedar Springs, the area
became known as Cedar Mills.
The trading post grew into a little town with several general stores, saloons, a school, a gin, a saw mill and a hotel run by Mrs. Kirkpatrick. The area now lies below Lake Texoma. Early settlers at Cedar Mills include family names of:
F. G. Noel came to this area about 1859. The Noel family lived on a tract of land until the land was bought by the government. The first gin in the area was on the Noel farm located two and one-half miles north of the Cedar Mills community. The thread-wheel type gin was run by oxen tramping on the big wheel. Cotton was ginned inside and carried out into the yard to a big press to bale. The press was also run by oxen. The second generation of the Noel family owned the first cook stove and sewing machine in the area. Squire Thomas Jefferson Dickerson and his wife, Judy, came to Texas from Barren County, Kentucky, living in Paris and Kentuckytown before moving to Cedar Mills in 1850. The Squire established the same businesses he had in Kentucky - a store, post office, saw mill and carpenter shop. The historic camp of Quantrell is one mile northeast of Cedar Mills. The families of Cedar Mills first belonged to Basin Springs Baptist Church. Later they helped establish the Shiloh Baptist Church in 1871. Cedar Mills History Towns Copyright © 2024, TXGenWeb. If you find any of Grayson County, TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |