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College Mound is an unincorporated community in Kaufman County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is on the Wikipedia List of ghost towns in Texas.
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- ↑ Baker, T. Lindsay (1986). Ghost Towns of Texas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 16–18. ISBN 0806121890.
