Town of Montgomery

Montgomery's founder sold the town for people. In October 1839 W. W. Shepperd conveyed his 200-acre town tract, the courthouse included, to James McCown for $4,000. The deed records that McCown paid by transferring seven enslaved people to Shepperd: Carter, Syphax and Abner, Caroline and Betsy, and two children, one named Bill and one unnamed. The release of mortgages that closed the sale was recorded in the Montgomery County deed books, and it excepted two pieces of the tract, one of them Joseph L. Bennett's lot.

What the plaque says

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

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 18 mi
  A cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.
• Navasota — 23 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Star of the Republic Museum — 28 mi
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.

More markers nearby

• Montgomery County, C. S. A. — steps away
• Charles Bellinger Stewart — steps away
• Lake Creek Settlement — steps away
• The Old Methodist Churchyard — steps away