With a mother-lode hit on June 5, 1932, George Strake birthed the Great Conroe Oil Field. Mind boggling were repercussions for Conroe and Montgomery County, a city at the time bent low under Depression woes. For example, a major bank had failed, schools were in need. George Strake, however, through trials and victory along the way in such sites as Cuba and Mexico, finally proved his thesis correct that the route to oil was to the east of town, not to the west as common experience suggested. The city of Conroe, thus bent low at the time under the impact of the Great Depression, became transformed to the point of assuming the title of “The Miracle City.”
Original Article: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/moco/events/article/another-side-conroe-s-history-making-oil-boom-18541665.php
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