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CONROE, TEXAS. Conroe, the county seat of
Montgomery County, is on Interstate Highway 45 at the junction of the Union
Pacific and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads, seven miles
southeast of Lake Conroe in central Montgomery County. In 1881 Houston
lumberman Isaac Conroe established a sawmill on Stewarts Creek two miles
east of the International-Great Northern Railroad's Houston-Crockett line on
a tract of land in the J. G. Smith survey, first settled in the late 1830s.
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