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off 1660 just north of CR133
take dirt path to fence
(Hutto/Jonah)
13 graves identified but only 3 with names
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Coordinates
Latitude
30.5914
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Longitude -97.5348
UTM 14 R - Easting:
640477 - Northing: 3385235
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MONADALE, TEXAS. Monadale is on Mustang Creek
and Farm Road 1660, thirty miles northeast of Austin in
Williamson County. It was once called Springtown or
Stringtown but was renamed for Mona House, daughter of
Edward Mandell House, friend and advisor of President
Woodrow Wilson. Colonel House owned a large farm at
Monadale, inherited from his grandfather, and visited it
occasionally. A gin was built at the community in 1899,
and some French immigrants lived there. House offered
ten acres for a school, but the community wanted the
school building elsewhere. The school became part of the
Hutto system in 1949. In the early 1980s only farmhouses
and a scattered population remained.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Clara Stearns Scarbrough, Land of Good
Water: A Williamson County History (Georgetown, Texas:
Williamson County Sun Publishers, 1973).
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Cemetery is located on FM 1660
between Hutto & Jonah on north side of San Gabriel River
near intersection of Monadale Gin and road going to
Taylor. There are between 9-13 funeral home markers, no
names.
As of Sep. 24, 2010, the entrance lane to the cemetery
is located on the east side of FM 1620 across the road
from the TEXMIX Concrete and Materials plant. The lane
is driveable by car and is only a short distance from
the cemetery. The cemetery is a square plot about 40 x
40 feet and overgrown with ground cover, but had been
maintained at one time as there was no brush or
saplings. Only three gravestones were observed and none
of the funeral markers mentioned above, but they could
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Williamson County 
