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City of Brownwood |
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Brownwood,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
31° 43' 48.64410000012",
-98° 58' 25.0700500002"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
(first site 1 mile E; second, 5 miles SE, present location) Settled 1857. Acquired a post office 1858. An oil vein ruined 1860s water well of townsite donor Greenleaf Fisk. Wagon-yard keeper Martin Meinsinger sold medicinal oil from 1878 well. Commercial drilling began 1889. Farming, cotton sales, business town since 1880s; was reached by Santa Fe Railroad, 1885; Frisco, 1890. Two colleges -- Daniel Baker and Howard Payne -- were situated here in 1889. Camp Bowie, World War II Military Post, operated in Brownwood from 1940 to 1946. Center for agriculture-retail sales-industry. Has a coliseum, parks, 110 miles of lake shore. (1968)
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
City of Brownwood Historical Marker Location Map, Texas
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