Blue Mound United Methodist Church - Denton, TX
N 33° 17.630 W 097° 10.739
14S E 669556 N 3685341
The Blue Mound United Methodist Church is at 8421 N Interstate 35, Denton, TX.
Waymark Code: WMXVFG
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/02/2018
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While the church has a nice website, they do not provide any history. Interestingly, this is the general area of where the Blue Mound community once was, surviving today as a rural community with this church, the adjacent cemetery, and the old school building next to the cemetery. The
Denton County History Page and
The Handbook of Texas Online together provide a fairly good overview.
The community was established in 1876 by Herman Christian Barthold, Sr. (who is buried here), and ultimately named for the bluebonnets that are the official state flower of Texas today. As the settlement grew, they established a school, a German Baptist church, and a German Methodist church. As one might expect, there was also a Lutheran church, but it was in Krum, not too far from here.
The church itself dates to the 1890s, although this is a modern building. Services were conducted in German until 1938, no doubt influenced by the coming of World War II.