Montgomery Trading Post

Historical Marker

(From the Appendix to The Early History of Montgomery County)

By Kameron Searle

June 24, 1993

Re: Montgomery Trading Post

Montgomery County, Job #26491

Dear Mrs. Owen:

The Sate Marker Review Board has completed its evaluation of the above-referenced historical marker application. I am sorry to inform you that the Board has voted not to approve this application for a marker.  In making their decision, the Board members took into consideration the relative lack of concrete information on the Montgomery and Shannon trading posts and their locations, as well as the lack of documented historical significance. One member suggested that he might be willing to consider a new application with a wider focus on the history of the entire Lake Creek Settlement...

Cynthia J. Beeman, Administrator

Official Texas Historical Markers

Local History Programs

   In 1991, the Montgomery Intermediate School History Club under the guidance of Bessie Price Owen filed an appliction for an official Texas State Historical Marker for the so-called Montgomery Trading Post. In 1993, this appliction was rejected. This page is about the history of the Montgomery Trading Post marker application.  Included here will be the entire Montgomery Trading Post marker file as recieved from Sarah McClesky with the Texas Historical Commission on June 8, 2009. Special thanks to Sarah McClesky for locating this file after so many years.

   The history of the Montgomery Trading Post marker appliction is important.  One of the important lessons to be learned from this file is that outsiders with no emotional attachment to the Montgomery Trading Post story realize immediately after reading it that the Montgomery Trading Post is nothing more than family legends.  The file is also important in that it tells us precisely which local historians knew about the Lake Creek Settlment between 1991-1993. As the file is examined, we will see the many reasons that the Texas Historical Commission rejected this appliction.  Many of the reasons stated by the Texas Historical Commission are the same reasons stated by this treatise for rejecting the Montgomery Trading Post Myth.

Application Form for Official Texas Historical Marker

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Title of Marker: Montgomery Trading Post                

County: Montgomery

Marker Location: Highway 149 at Town Creek Montgomery (1mi. north of intersection of Hwy 149 and Hwy. 105)

Distance and direction of subject marker from marker site: approx. 300yds east of marker

Owner of Marker Site: Supervisor Resident Engineer Texas Highway Dept. Carl W. Ramert

Address: P.O. Box 1320 Conroe, Texas

Sponsor: Montogmery Intermediate School History Club

Address: P.O. Box 1475, Montgomery, Texas 77356

Signature of County Chairman: Gertie Spencer

Address 151 Texas Park Conroe, Texas

Date 4-4-91

This application was filed on April 4, 1991. The file stamp indicates that this appliction was received on by the Texas Historical Commssion on April 9, 1991.