Homestead Plaza Conroe

Homestead Plaza is designed as a collection of upscale retail shops and restaurants for local, regional and national tenants, with the rustic look of the Texas Hill Country, and is owned by descendants of the Cartwright family, early settlers in Montgomery County, Texas.

The Cartwright family originally settled near Montgomery, Texas in about 1830, prior to Texas statehood. Part of the family later moved to Conroe. In the 1920s, Rexford Harry Cartwright and wife, Maurine Beckham Cartwright, acquired 10 acres in the J. O. H. Bennette Subdivision, where they built their home and raised their two children, Virginia Ann and John. The center’s name, Homestead Plaza, is derived from the old homestead of Rex and Maurine Cartwright in the J. O. H. Bennette Subdivision. Rex and Maurine resided on this land until the late 1960s when they moved “into town,” about a mile south of Homestead Plaza.

Homestead Plaza encompasses approximately 2.15 acres out of the Cartwright’s original homestead of 10 acres in the J. O. H. Bennette Subdivision. Homestead Plaza is now owned and being developed by J. Rex Cartwright, Jr. and Keith C. Cartwright, grandchildren of Rex and Maurine Cartwright.