The Isaac Conroe Property

Isaac Conroe, a native of New Jersey, served with the Union army during the Civil War. He moved to Southeast Texas with his wife Margaret Richardson in 1866 and lived at Lynchburg and Houston. In 1878 he built a sawmill at Haltom, and three years later moved the business to the Beach community, where a tram line connected the mill with the main line of the International and Great Northern Railroad. The town of Conroe grew up around that intersection, and Isaac Conroe became the first postmaster of the new settlement. Shortly after purchasing this site in 1885, he built the original section of the residence. Four years later, he contracted with the county commissioners to use the property as a temporary courthouse, and county records and offices were moved from Montgomery and remained there until a new courthouse was completed in 1891. In 1896 Conroe sold the house to his son, William Munger Conroe, a prominent lumberman and oil man. The home, originally a two-story frame structure with an outside stairway, was later enlarged with major additions.

Conroe, Texas · United States