Town of Montgomery

Founded in July, 1837 by

W. W. Shepherd

Incorporated in 1848

Montgomery County was created

December 14, 1837

James Mitchell, Pleasant Gray,

William Robinson, Elijah Collard

Charles Barnett, Joseph L. Bennet

Dr. B. B. Goodrich, D. D. Dunham and

Henry Fanthrop, Commissioners,

Selected Montgomery as the County

Seat and it remained as such

until 1889

Important trade center

before the Civil War

Erected by the State of Texas 1936