The unofficial guide to Montague County, Texas
Small county. Long memory.
Bowie, Nocona, Saint Jo, Montague — and eight more communities across 938 square miles of North Texas. This is the independent guide: news, directory, history, and people, all in one county.
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Belcherville, Texas
Small unincorporated community along US-82 between Saint Jo and Nocona in northern Montague County: a railroad-and-orchard settlement in long decline, with a historic cemetery and the atmosphere common to bypassed Texas small places.
Bowie, Texas
The largest city in Montague County: a railroad town founded in 1882 on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway, named for Jim Bowie, and home to Lake Amon G. Carter.
Forestburg, Texas
Unincorporated community in northwestern Montague County, a small rural settlement known locally for its hand-lettered watermelon stand on the county road in late summer.
Fruitland, Texas
Unincorporated community in Montague County, named for the orchard-belt agriculture that characterized the area during the county's late nineteenth and early twentieth century farming era.
Illinois Bend Memorial Cemetery
Historic Texas cemetery in northeastern Montague County on the Red River: a living community institution with marked graves from 1873 and an origin that predates the county's post-Civil War resettlement.
Illinois Bend, Texas
Remote Red River bend community in northeastern Montague County: frontier settlement, the catastrophic December 1863 Kiowa-Comanche raid, and a living cemetery that has served the community since the 1870s.
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