Wylie's Founding Families & Old Cemeteries

Every old prairie town keeps its history in its graveyards, and the country around Wylie keeps more than most. Long before the railroad pulled the town north in 1886, pioneer families had already settled this corner of southern Collin County — the Browns, the Kreymers, the Hugheses, and the German and Catholic families who founded the little community of St. Paul. Their family plots and community cemeteries still ring the modern city, quiet markers of who broke this blackland soil first. This driving loop links five of them, starting at Wylie's own cemetery and arcing out to the Kreymer and Hughes family grounds before reaching the St. Paul settlement and the cemetery that took its name from a frontier Catholic church. Read the stones and you'll meet the people behind the street names.