The hamlet of Himrod was the site of early milling activity on Plum Point Creek and the neighborhood was settled beginning in the 1790s. The original cemetery was what is now called the Old Himrod Cemetery, located on the southwest side of the Himrod Road immediately east of the railroad overpass. It is visible and accessible from the road, long neglected and much vandalized, but now maintained by the town.

The nucleus of the Grove Mount Cemetery is an old family burial ground used by the Fitzwater, Mathews and Davis families who settled the adjacent area at the very end of the 18th century. About 1876 an association purchased property adjacent to this old family plot and began burying people there. A few graves from other family plots in the neighborhood were moved here, and these with the old Fitzwater plot at the top of the knoll are the oldest burials in the cemetery.

The association maintains Grove Mount beautifully; the cemetery is visible and accessible from the road, up a rather steep driveway on the southwest side of the Himrod Road, out in the country a little distance northwest of the hamlet.