“Ten wins in a row is really big, and the Battle Line game. “What a big game for our program,” New Caney coach Brady Pennington said. The Eagles will face off against Foster (6-4), the fourth-place team from 10-5A, in the bi-district round next week. In 1946 the town consisted of some forty dwellings, three schools, two sawmills, a railroad station, and about twelve other businesses.New Caney (10-0, 7-0) is now 10-0 all-time against the Spartans (8-2, 6-1) and are headed into the playoffs with plenty of momentum and the outright District 9-5A (Div. In 1932 New Caney had one school for black students and three schools for whites. Its economy declined in the 1920s, but later revived with the Montgomery County lumber industry. The town had a telephone connection, three general stores, and a sawmill in 1914. By 1892 the population level had risen to 150. New Caney had begun as an agricultural town, but grew as the local lumber industry developed among the timber products the town shipped were mining props used to support excavations. In 1890 it reported a population of 100, served by several sawmills, a church, a school, a meat market, a general store, a cross-tie contractor, a justice of the peace, and an agent for the railroad, telegraph and express services. Robinson, the first postmaster, had petitioned for the name Caney, but there was already a Texas town with that name, so the post office department called the new post office New Caney.īy 1884 New Caney had a population of sixty, four steam sawmills, and a general store at that time the community shipped cotton, syrup, and hogs. The town grew, and in 1882 a post office was established under the name New Caney James B. The station was called Caney Station, after the dense canebrakes on Caney Creek. Cattle-loading pens were set up, and the community became a shipping point for livestock. In 1877 or 1878 the Houston, East and West Texas Railway reached the town. Other early settlers included the John Wesley Robinson family, who farmed and raised cattle and who also built a gristmill, steam cotton gin, and general store on Caney Creek. The community was founded in the 1860s and in its early years was known as Presswood, for pioneers Austin and Sarah Waters Presswood, who settled in the area in 1862 and raised cattle on the open range. New Caney, also known as Presswood, is on the Southern Pacific line at the junction of Farm Road 1485 and State Highway Loop 494, seventeen miles southeast of Conroe in southeastern Montgomery County. Here is the background information for you guys: I will post photos and findings along the way. Today is day one of my delve into the local history of this town, I am headed out the door to hit the library to try and find anything that may help me out to find these locations to scout. I have seen some signs a few years back on kayak trips and now I will revisit and analyze them. There is a missing General Store from 1885 or so and a bunch of sawmills along the creek in which I live about a mile from. I have a few areas that I will be checking out in the near future that I will record and photo and share on here. Its an old town and has some decent history. I have found many things about this small town that intrigues me. I live in a small town named New Caney about 20 miles North of Houston.
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