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Sleepy Hollow LbNA #65864 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Sep 21, 2013
Location: Neck Memorial Park
City:Palmer
County:Ellis
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Planted by:Lov3 B!rds
Found by: Gryzzled Gryphon
Last found:Jul 18, 2014
Status:FFFr
Last edited:Sep 21, 2013
Palmer is on Interstate Highway 45 and U.S. Highway 75, twelve miles northeast of Waxahachie in northeastern Ellis County. It was settled after the arrival of the Houston and Texas Central Railway in 1872 and was named for D. S. Palmer, a Houston physician and stockholder of the railroad company. The community quickly became a shipping point for area cotton and grain farmers. In 1874 a post office branch opened at the community. By 1885 the town had 250 residents and twenty-eight businesses, including a hotel, a bank, a school, and two steam gristmills and cotton gins. Before the construction of separate churches, the town's four major religious denominations, the Methodists, Baptists, Disciples of Christ, and Cumberland Presbyterians, all worshipped in the Cumberland Presbyterian church. In 1890 Palmer was incorporated. By 1896 it had a weekly paper, the Palmer Times. In 1902 the Palmer Press Brick Company (later the Barron Brick Company) built a plant in the town. On the eve of World War I Palmer had 750 residents, four churches, two banks, a weekly newspaper (the Palmer Rustler), and more than forty other businesses. Its population was 758 in the early 1930s and 601 in the mid-1970s. By 1988 Palmer had 1,505 residents and fourteen businesses. In the 2000 census its population was 1,731. (Taken from Palmer, TX website)

Take exit 261 off HWY 45 for Jefferson Rd/FM 813. If coming from Ennis, you will turn right before the overpass and then turn right at the stop sign onto FM 813. If coming from Dallas, you will turn right after the overpass and then turn right at the stop sign to go over the highway and continue on FM 813 until you see a sharp right curve. You will veer to the left when the road makes this sharp right and this puts you on Neck Rd. Follow Neck Rd. 1.8 miles and the cemetery is on the right.

When you turn into Neck Memorial Park, follow the path into the cemetery. When you come to the fork in the path, stay to the right. Follow the path until it makes a sharp left curve. Park along the path here and stand on the lower right corner (closest to the path) of the large concrete rectangle surrounding a grave for Mary Ada White. From here, count 45 paces due North until you see Tommie Jones SR and Tommie Jones JR on your left. Turn to the right and you will see a Private Property sign posted. You will find Sleepy Hollow at the base of the tree between the Cedar Tree and Private Property signs hidden under some rocks. Please re-hide well and enjoy your visit in Neck Memorial Park.