Freestone County, Texas Communities Rocky Mount Rocky Mount is a community located between the "Plum Creek" community and the town of Oakwood. (Oakwood is in adjacent Leon County). Founded by Beeton Stroud and other family members. The farm lands around Rocky Mount is drained by Keechi Creek. Rocky Mount was about a mile west of the Liberty community and about two miles north of Oakwood. The Oak View School was about two miles on the other side of Keechi Creek. The Rocky Mount school had 22 Africian-American pupils in 1887. Cemeteries: Stroud Cemetery