Blue Mound formed around a cattle immunization laboratory established in 1920 by Scottish immigrant John Kennedy:contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}. A small settlement grew near the Blue Mound hill, and although industry left in 1960, the community survived and incorporated that same year:contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}. Blue Mound later became a bedroom community in northwest Tarrant County.