Conroe

Established in the forest in 1881 as Isaac Conroe's sawmill, two and a half miles east of the present site at the juncture of two railroads, the community was first named Conroe's Switch, then Conroe's, and by 1890, Conroe. Lumbering brought prosperity, and it was chosen as county seat in 1889. The country was still so wild that a deer was shot on the Square during courthouse construction. Incorporated in 1904, it continued to grow in spite of several epidemics and two disastrous fires. The 1931 Strake Oil discovery turned it into a boom town, and it became an industrial, forestry, and petroleum center.

Conroe, Texas · United States