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Town of Dobbin, Montgomery County Texas
 

Dobbin in 1940

 

From Larry Foerster: The old Bert Perry grocery  store is  now a women’s boutique in Dobbin next to Bobby Holder’s  BBQ place across the road  from Mock’s store at the flashing  light intersection with FM1486  which back  then was a  dirt road.  This was before  Mock’s store was moved  across  the street.  Notice the  condition of old Highway 105. Not much in Dobbin at that time.

 

Dobbin: August 28, 1925 The Courier

 

 

Dobbin:
From a Traveler's Guide to Historic Montgomery County
1836-1986, Texas Sesquicentennial Edition:

 

The first settlement near the present Dobbin was called Bobville. There were hardware and general stores, a grist mill, cotton gin and three saloons. In 1915 when the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railroad came through intersecting the Santa Fe tracks about a mile east of Bobville, an unofficial name "Crossing" was given. Later a town was established at the crossing and named Dobbin. Shortly after, the post office, railroad station and most stores moved from Bobville to Dobbin. They moved the buildings on logs and pulled them by mules and oxen. The grist mill stayed in Bobville.

 

More on Dobbin Texas

DOBBIN, TEXAS. Dobbin is on Lake Creek at the junction of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Burlington Northern, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroads, near the intersection of State Highway 105 and Farm Road 1486 in western Montgomery County. The earliest mention of the area comes from the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, who camped northwest of the site of Dobbin on February 14, 1687. One of the first families to settle in the area was that of Noah and Ester Wightman Griffith, natives of New York state, who received a Mexican land grant there in 1831.

In 1878 the Central and Montgomery Railway built a line through the area from Navasota to Montgomery. A post office was established in 1880 under the name Bobbin. In 1885 Bobbin was a shipping point for cotton and lumber and had daily mail service, four sawmills, a gristmill, a flour mill, a church, a district school, two general stores, a physician, and a population of 100. By the 1890s the settlement had a Baptist church, a cotton gin, W. G. Post's sawmill, J. M. Stinson's general store, two livestock dealers, one combination mill and gin, a blacksmith, and a population of 250. In 1903-04 the town had three one-teacher schools; one had thirty-seven white students, a second had eighteen white students, and the third had forty-three black students. By this time the population had declined to 168.

In 1906 or 1907 the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway built through Bobbin on its way from Mexia to Houston, making the town a railroad junction. In 1909 the town's name was changed to Dobbin. By 1915 the population was 100, and local businesses included three general stores, two blacksmith shops, a drugstore, and a grocery. In 1926 Dobbin School was established. By the late 1940s the community had three churches, two schools, two sawmills, two factories, nine businesses, the railroad station, several dwellings, and a population of 175. In 1965 Dobbin had a post-peeling plant. In the late 1960s the population was 106, and in the early 1970s it was 170. In 1990 the town comprised Mock's Feed Store and Grocery, the post office, the Dobbin station of the Montgomery Fire Department, two churches, and a collection of dwellings; the population was estimated at 200.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Robin Navarro Montgomery, The History of Montgomery County (Austin: Jenkins, 1975). Montgomery County Genealogical Society, Montgomery County History (Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Hunter, 1981).

Will Branch


 

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