The Flower Mound & Its Legend

Some towns are named for a person, a railroad, or a river crossing. Flower Mound is named for a hill — a smooth, dome-shaped rise of about twelve and a half acres that lifts some fifty feet above the surrounding prairie and bursts into wildflowers each spring. The mound came draped in stories long before the suburb arrived: tales of an Indian council ground, of star-crossed lovers, of a place where, by local say-so, no tree ever grew and no building ever stood. This short drive ties the legend to the people who actually settled around it — the Peters Colony farmers who named it, the 1854 Presbyterian congregation that first put 'Flower Mound' on paper, and the pioneer cemetery where its founding families rest. A detour west reaches old Bartonville, a frontier store town that refused to be swallowed. Hedge the legends as folklore; enjoy the bloom either way.