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Isaac Conroe
House
Historical Marker Text
Info from
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/
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The Isaac Conroe house is located at Avenue A
and 1st Street. In 1981, a historical mark was erected.
Isaac Conroe's house was used as temporary Courthouse before the new courthouse was built in 1890. Photo courtesy of
Heritage Museum
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Isaac Conroe house was a temporary
Montgomery County Courthouse. A native of New Jersey, Isaac Conroe
(1834-1897) served with the Union army during the Civil War. Moving to
Southeast Texas with his wife
Margaret (Richardson) (1846-1896) in 1866, he lived at Lynchburg
and Houston. In 1878 he built a sawmill at Haltom (12 mi. S) and three years
later moved his business to the Beach community (2.5 mi. E). A tram line
connected the mill with the main line of the International and Great
Northern Railroad. The town of Conroe grew up around the intersection and
Isaac Conroe became the first postmaster of the new settlement. The original
section of this residence was built by Conroe shortly after he purchased the
site in 1885. Four years later he contracted with the county commissioners
to use the property as a temporary courthouse. County records and offices
were moved from Montgomery (17 mi. W) and remained here until a new
courthouse was completed in 1891. In 1896 Conroe sold the house to his son
William
Munger Conroe (1870-1947), a prominent lumberman and oil man.
Major additions were later made to the home, which was originally a
two-story frame structure with an outside stairway. |
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