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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DIW_first-state-bank_Montgomery-TX.html
First State Bank. of Montgomery. One of first state banks in Texas. Chartered Dec. 11, 1906, it began operations in a frame building on lot south of here. Present building was finished 1908 and is now oldest existing commercial building in this on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DIV_montgomery-county-c-s-a_Montgomery-TX.html
Montgomery County, C.S.A.. . A wealthy farm area in 1861. In Civil War, supported Texas with goods, funds and men. 2 companies from here were in famed Hood's Texas Brigade; one company had only 9 men living by 1865. Young boys, old men and the par…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DIU_town-of-montgomery_Montgomery-TX.html
Town of Montgomery. . Founded in July, 1837 by W. W. Shepherd Incorporated in 1848 Montgomery County was created December 14, 1837 James Mitchell, Pleasant Gray, William Robinson, Elijah Collard Charles Barnett, Joseph L. Bennet Dr. B. B. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DIT_charles-bellinger-stewart_Montgomery-TX.html
Charles Bellinger Stewart. First Secretary of State in Texas. Came to Texas 1830. Secretary of State, Nov. 1835-Feb. 1836. Signed Declaration of Independence; helped to write Constitution of the Republic in 1836 and the State in 1845; served Montg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DIS_montgomery-baptist-church-building_Montgomery-TX.html
Montgomery Baptist Church Building. . Baptists in Montgomery organized a fellowship in 1850 and purchased land at this site the same year. In 1853, the Rev. Thomas Chilton became the church's first full-time pastor. This vernacular Gothic revival …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DIR_site-of-montgomery-united-methodist-church_Montgomery-TX.html
Site of Montgomery United Methodist Church. . Isaac L.G. Strickland established a Methodist congregation in Montgomery in 1838, under the direction of Elder Littleton Fowler of the Mississippi Methodist Conference. The church was one of the first …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DIP_lake-creek-settlement_Montgomery-TX.html
Lake Creek Settlement. . Long before the arrival of Stephen F. Austin's colonists, the Coushatta Indians traveled through the lands that would become the Lake Creek Settlement upon the Coushatta Trace, a trade road from Louisiana into Texas. Locat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CUD_willis_Willis-TX.html
Willis. . Founded in 1870. Named for P. J. and R. S. Willis (large land and timber owners who formerly were merchants in area). They gave townsite, on the Houston & Great Northern Railroad. With the line came prosperity, and in 1874 Willis and Mon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CUC_site-of-willis-cigar-factory_Willis-TX.html
Site of Willis Cigar Factory. . Following the Civil War, area farmers found the climate and soil conditions of Montgomery County were ideal for the production of tobacco. The varieties grown here were of the highest quality, winning international …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27K3_conroe_Conroe-TX.html
Established in the forest in 1881 as Isaac Conroe's sawmill, 2-1/2 mi. east of present site, at juncture of two railroads, first named Conroe's Switch; then Conroe's; in 1890, Conroe.
Lumbering brought prosperity. Chosen county seat in 1889. T…