Tamina is an unincorporated area

Unincorporated area

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 in southern Montgomery County

Montgomery County, Texas

Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The county was created by an act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 14, 1837. The county was named for the town of Montgomery, Texas. In 2000, its...

, Texas

Texas

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, United States

United States

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Tamina is along the Missouri Pacific line, located one mile east of Interstate 45

Interstate 45

Interstate 45 is an intrastate Interstate Highway located entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. It connects the cities of Dallas and Houston, continuing southeast from Houston to Galveston over the Galveston Causeway to the Gulf of Mexico...

 and eight and one half miles south of the city of Conroe

Conroe, Texas

Conroe is a suburban city 40 miles north of Houston in the gulf coastal plains/piney woods region of southeast Texas.It is the seat of Montgomery County and falls within the metropolitan area.As of the 2000 U.S...

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James H. Berry promoted the community and named it after Tammany Hall

Tammany Hall

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, New York

New York

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. The letter writer submitting the name to the postal department spelled the name "Tamina." As of 2008 the name is pronounced "Tammany."

History

The Houston and Great Northern Railroad opened in the area in 1871. In 1897 a post office opened. In 1904 the community had 128 people. The office closed in 1905. The office re-opened during the same year. In 1915 the community had 100 people, a telephone connection, two general stores, and a grocery store. In 1925 50 people lived in Tamina. The post office closed during a period after 1935. In 1945 a station on the International and Great Northern Railroad served the community. In addition the community had two businesses, three schools (including a school for African-Americans with one teacher and serving grades 1 through 7), one church, and twelve dwellings scattered across the community. The African-American school closed in 1949 and the students attended Booker T. Washington School in Conroe. In the 1980s Tamina included dwellings scattered throughout the community, businesses, two standalone churches, and a combined church and cemetery located one quarter mile east of the center of the settlement.

Education

The community is within the Conroe Independent School District

Conroe Independent School District

Conroe Independent School District is a school district based in the Deane L. Sadler Administration/Technology Center in Conroe, Texas.CISD serves the cities of Conroe, Oak Ridge North, and Shenandoah, and the towns of Cut and Shoot and Woodloch...

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The area is divided between the attendance zones of Oak Ridge Elementary School and Houser Elementary School.

The following schools serve all of the Tamina area.

• Vogel Intermediate School
• York Junior High School
• Oak Ridge High School
  Oak Ridge High School (Montgomery County, Texas)
  Oak Ridge High School is a secondary school located in The Woodlands, Texas, USA. Oak Ridge High School is a 5A school in the Conroe Independent School District. It was built in 1981...
  
  

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