Magnolia, TX
Magnolia, Texas is a city in southwestern Montgomery County, Texas, approximately 45 miles northwest of Houston and 25 miles southwest of Conroe. Established on September 3, 1885, the area was originally called Mink; the city officially became "Magnolia" on July 28, 1903. By the mid-1920's, Magnolia was a bustling regional center for lumber, farm products, and cattle.
Oklahoma Community
Oklahoma Community is a small rural community located on Farm Road 2978 about thirty miles northwest of Houston and thirteen miles southwest of Conroe in southern Montgomery County. Settlement began in the area by the late 1800s, and local farmers constructed the first Oklahoma Community School around 1880 on land donated by the G. V. Leslie family. The one-room structure functioned both as a school house and church. A cemetery adjacent to the site was started sometime later and named Oklahoma Cemetery, the earliest marked graves date to the 1890s. A two-room school was built on property purchased from the Hirsch family in 1923. After that building burned in 1930, a new school was built in its place. During the 1930s highway maps showed the school, a church, and numerous dwellings in the area. The school closed in 1944 when students were transferred to nearby Magnolia. Throughout the second half of the twentieth century and continuing today the school building functioned as an important community center for Oklahoma Community. The Oklahoma Cemetery received a Texas Historical Marker in 2001 and the Oklahoma School received its Texas Historical Marker in 2003.
For Information or availability about using the Oklahoma Community Center, please call 281-363-9410 or 281-367-3977, or email: Community_buildings@precinct3.org.
There are several websites offering more information about Magnolia and Oklahoma Community. Here are a few:
The City of Magnolia: http://cityofmagnolia.com
Wikipedia entry for Magnolia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia,_Texas
The Magnolia Chamber of Commerce: http://www.magnoliatexas.org
Magnolia Parkway Chamber of Commerce: http://magnoliaparkwaycc.org
Magnolia Volunteer Fire Department: http://www.magnoliafire.org
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department: http://www.mocosheriff.com
Montgomery County Precinct 5 Constables Department: http://www.mctx.org/dept/--constables/constable_precinct_5/index.html
Montgomery County Precinct 3 Constables Department: http://www.mctx.org/dept/--constables/constable_precinct_3/index.html
