Twin Mound is a ghost town in western Douglas County, Kansas, United States.

In 1856, Hiatt, his wife and five children moved to Kansas Territory settling in Bloomington.

Hiatt gave no explanation as to why he left Bloomington but Hiatt resented the power of organized church in American society, preferred Confucius's version of the Golden Rule and possibly objected to the regulations the Bloomington Town Company was imposing on the residents.

The small farming community was growing steadily and Hiatt had big plans for the town.

He began talking up the Twin Mounds Harmonic College which would teach science, facts and laws; not sect, doctrine, nature or creed.