"Founded in 1837" a Montgomery Travel Page by grandmaR

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Grave marker in the Old Montgomery cemetery

Prior to 1837, Montgomery was a trading post located about a mile north of the current site. In July 1837, and ad in the Telegraph and Texas Register advertised the sale of lots in the newly organized town. Montgomery was the county seat of the new county of Montgomery. It was a trade center. The first school was built in 1839, the first Protestant parsonage in Texas in 1842, and the town was incorporated in 1848.

The Civil War stopped all progress in Montgomery, but by 1900, the community had regained the merchantile business as well as three cotton gins, five hotels and boarding houses, doctors, dentists and lawyers. But when the railroad bypassed the town and the county seat moved to Conroe, it soon became a quiet, but historic, country town.

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The Montgomery Historical Society has been instrumental in preserving the fabric of the town's history, and we spent one afternoon driving and walking through the town and taking pictures of the various historical structures while following the City Tour Guide brochure. I do not know the significance of the lion who seemed to be standing out in a vacant lot between College and Caroline Street. I also do not know the provinance of this house - I kept track of most of the houses that were listed as significant on the brochure, but I can't identify this one.