Ghosts of Texas - Grant Colony Cemetery Traditional Cache

This is my first contribution to the Ghosts of Texas series. I've passed by this place for decades and never botherd to see it--until now.

The cache is a camouflaged peanut butter jar. Please place it back the way you found it so it won't get muggled. Inside, I placed a pen, a few small prizes. Congratulations to TealCat (who else!) for the FTF.

GRANT'S COLONY, TEXAS. Grant's Colony was two miles east of Huntsville in central Walker County. It was named for its benefactor, George Washington Grant, of Walker County, who planned a model farming community at the site. He accumulated over 8,000 acres in the district between 1856 and 1874. The community has sometimes been called Harmony Settlement. Grant provided land for a school and two churches, a Methodist Episcopal and a Baptist. Grant's Colony was predominantly a freedmen's village. Two public schools in the area enrolled twenty-four black students in 1898. Cotton and corn were the principal crops raised by the local farmers, who were largely tenants or sharecroppers, and Grant provided a mill and gin nearby. In the 1930s the property was purchased by the National Forest Service.