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Chambers
Street, Conroe in the 1920s
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
| History
in a Pecan Shell
A timeline of selected significant events:
1881: Lumberman Isaac Conroe establishes sawmill on Stewarts Creek.
1884:
Post office granted as Conroe's Switch on the I-GN railroad.
1889:
Population reaches 300, replaces Montgomery as county seat.
1891: Courthouse
constructed.
1892: Population reaches 500.
1896: The weekly
Conroe Courier was first published.
1900: Conroe becomes Mongomery
County's largest town.
1901: Major fire destroys part of downtown.
1904:
Incorporated with a population of about 1,000
1911: Another fire does extensive
damage.
1914: Population reaches 1,374.
1921: Town finally buys its first
fire engine.
1931: Population reaches 2,457. Oil is discovered seven miles
from town -causing a boom
1933: Population reaches 5,000. Conroe's streets
are paved.
1935:
Crighton Theater constructed
1936: New Courthouse
built. Population reaches 10,000.
1941: Population declines to 4,624.
1972: Population reaches 11,969.
1982: Population reaches 18,034.
1990:
Population 27,675.
2000:
Population 36,811. |
Conroe,
Texas Landmarks / Attractions |
Crighton
Theatre - 936-441-ARTS
Restored 1934 theatre. Live performances.
234 N. Main
Cynthia
Woods Mitchell Pavilion - See The Woodlands
Heritage
Museum of Montgomery County
- 936-539-6873
In Candy Cane Park. The
Annual Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival -
Second weekend in October
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| Downtown
Conroe
TE Photo, June 2004 |
| A
downtown bank building
TE Photo, June 2004 |
Conroe Recreation Lake
Conroe - West Fork of San Jacinto River in Montgomery and Walker Counties
Lake Conroe
Park - On Hwy 105, 7 miles west of I-45.
936-788-8302
W.
Goodrich Jones State Forest - A mile west of I-45 along Farm Road 1488, just
south of Conroe. Lake
Conroe Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
505 West Davis Street Conroe, TX 77301
(877) 4-CONROE or (936) 538-7112
http://www.lakeconroecvb.org/ Conroe
Hotels > Book
Here |
Bluebonnets
and Brahma Cows west of Conroe
TE photo, 2006 |
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The masonic building in Conroe
TE Photo, June 2004 |
| Conroe
Lodge cornerstone
TE Photo, June 2004
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| A
utilitarian barber pole downtown
TE
Photo, June 2004 | |
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