Robert W. Lane opened a general store near this site in 1866, and the surrounding area prospered as more people settled and took up farming. In 1878 the U.S. Government approved a petition for a post office that officially put the Lane community on the map. In 1884, Thomas and Hettie Marshall deeded land for a Methodist Church, which later built a tabernacle for open-air summer revivals. A one-room school opened and was replaced in 1910 by a two-story school building for eight grades, while a Baptist church organized in 1905 and disbanded in 1930. The Lane Gin Company served the community's cotton production from 1912 until a fire in 1932, and during its heyday the dispersed agricultural settlement also had a second general store, barber shop, blacksmith, and grist mill. The school merged with Celeste in 1949, and the Methodist Church disbanded in 1959. Several burials had already taken place on this land before J.R. and Mat Methvin and J.R. and Mary Noland dedicated a community cemetery in Aug. 1882, and the first burial after its establishment was Earl Clymer in Jul. 1883. Nearly 200 documented burials, along with many unmarked graves, remain here, with granite, limestone, and marble gravestones prominent and elm and hackberry trees surrounding the cemetery perimeter. Those buried here include military veterans from the Civil War to World War II, and Jim Clymer, buried here, used wealth amassed in the 1849 California Gold Rush to buy much North Texas land. Today the nearby Clymer Meadow Preserve is one of the largest remnants of unplowed blackland prairie, and the Lane Cemetery Association, formed in 1983, oversees the approximately six acre burial ground, which remains the primary surviving resource of this historic rural community.