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BROWNWOOD TEXAS REAL ESTATE VIA INTERNET
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Brownwood is on Pecan Bayou at the intersection of U.S. highways 67,
84, and 377, Farm Road 2524, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway in south central Brown County. The city and the county are
named for Henry Stevenson Brown. The area was settled by farmers and
cattle ranchers like Welcome W. Chandler and J. H. Fowler. When the
sparsely populated county was organized in 1857, the hamlet of Brownwood
was chosen as county seat. A post office was opened in the town the
following year. The town was originally located on the east side of
Pecan Bayou, but in the late 1860s a land-title dispute and problems
with an inadequate water supply induced the residents to move to a
sixty-acre site on the west side of the bayou donated by Greenleaf
Fisk. Brownwood Masonic Lodge was chartered in 1865. As late as 1872
Brownwood was a small community of two stores, a log courthouse, and
about five dwellings. In 1873 John Y. Rankin purchased land around
the business district and began to build homes in what became known
as the Rankin Addition. In 1876, when the town had an estimated 120
inhabitants and Cumberland Presbyterian, Presbyterian, and Baptist
churches, the first bank was opened and a schoolhouse was built that
also served as a town hall and a church. Because Brownwood lay on a
feeder line of the Western Trail, stores and saloons served the needs
of the cowboys who drove the herds through town. A cotton gin was built
in town in 1877 as the state of Texas began to offer the land to farmers. |
