Brownwood

(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)

Brownwood is a historical marker in Brownwood, Brown County, dedicated in 1968. It is one of 54 historical markers documented in Brown County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 74 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.7319, -98.9736 near Brownwood. The nearest cataloged historic site is Brown County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Welcome William Chandler, Coggin and Parks Building, and Brown County Jail.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5049000882. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.