The town of Monterey is shrouded in mystery and no one is really sure if it was located in Louisiana or Texas. This is because nothing remains of the town today except two graves. A plat of the town exists in the Vivian Museum, though little or nothing is known about who lived there or who ran businesses there.
What is known is that Monterey had a riverboat landing and was home to 1000 or so inhabitants. In 1878, the little town even had a U.S. post office. The names on the graves are T. E. Samuel
and Ernest L. M. Sleet. Samuel was born in Orange County, Virginia and died October 6, 1880. Sleet was born March 1, 1861 and died January 17, in 1878.
