About Brownwood, Texas

Brownwood is a city of 18,862 people and the seat of Brown County, on the west bank of Pecan Bayou. Both the city and the county carry the name of Henry Stevenson Brown. When the county was organized in 1857, its few residents picked the little settlement of Brownwood as county seat, and at first it stood east of the bayou. In the late 1860s a fight over land titles and a poor water supply pushed the townspeople across to the west side, onto sixty acres given by Greenleaf Fisk.

Growth came slowly at first, and in 1872 the town still had only two stores, a log courthouse and about five homes. Cowboys driving herds up a feeder of the Western Trail kept its stores and saloons busy, and a cotton gin opened in 1877 as farmers took up state land. Brownwood incorporated in 1884, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad reached it a year later, and the population climbed from 725 in 1880 to 3,965 in 1900. By 1920 no town west of Fort Worth bought more cotton.

“City residents coped by turning a skating rink into a dormitory, by allowing patrons to bed down in a movie theater after the final show, by subdividing the existing housing stock, and by the building of additional housing units.”
Handbook of Texas
  • Greenleaf Fisk's giftGreenleaf Fisk gave sixty acres west of Pecan Bayou for the relocated county seat and another 100 acres for the county's use, and the town grew up on that ground. His house, the Greenleaf Fisk House, joined the National Register in 2004.
  • Two colleges in 1889Two church colleges opened in Brownwood in 1889. The Presbyterians founded Daniel Baker College, and the Baptists founded Howard Payne College. Daniel Baker later closed, and in 1953 its campus became part of Howard Payne. Today Howard Payne University has won national cross country titles in 1957 and 1964 and a women's basketball title in 2008, and its campus holds the Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom museum.
  • The saloons close, Battle Row opensProhibition gained support in town during the 1890s, and after a string of violent incidents Brownwood shut its saloons in 1903. Drinking clubs just as rowdy opened in their place, and one stretch of street earned the name Battle Row.
  • Camp Bowie's wartime boomCamp Bowie went up south and southwest of town in the fall of 1940 and grew into the largest military training center in Texas. By December 1940 its 13,500 workers outnumbered the 13,398 people Brownwood had counted that year, and by March 1941 the city's population stood at 22,479. The camp closed in 1946, but it left the city better streets, improved sanitation and medical care, a municipal airport and new housing.
  • Gordon Wood's LionsBrownwood High's Lions, in maroon and white, won seven state football championships, the last in 1981. Gordon Wood coached there for a quarter-century and retired in 1985 with 396 wins, one of the best records any Texas coach has posted.

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Places and landmarks2

  • Woodland Heights
  • Bluff View

Streets and roads139

  • Main Street
  • West Commerce Street
  • Highway 183 North
  • Belle Plain Street
  • Brady Avenue
  • Indian Creek Road
  • Seventh Street
  • Milam Drive
  • Burnett Road
  • Carnegie Street
  • Center Avenue
  • Parkway Drive
  • Oak Trail
  • 14th Street
  • Morris Sheppard Drive
  • Austin Avenue
  • Ranch Road 2524
  • Hawkins Street
  • Coleman Street
  • Magnolia Street
  • Fourth Street
  • First Street
  • FM 2376
  • Second Street
  • Vine Street
  • Coggin Avenue
  • Ninth Street
  • Third Street
  • Durham Avenue
  • FM 45
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  • Good Shepherd Drive
  • Eleventh Street
  • Eighth Street
  • Tenth Street
  • Twelfth Street
  • Avenue East
  • Slayden Street
  • Sixth Street
  • FM 2126
  • Cordell Street
  • FM 3254
  • 13th Street
  • 16th Street
  • River Oaks Drive
  • Custer Road
  • Southside Drive
  • Waco Street
  • Main Boulevard
  • Riverside Park Drive
  • Calvert Road
  • Southgate Drive
  • Booker Street
  • Brooks Avenue
  • Mustang Drive
  • West Baker Street
  • Temple Avenue
  • Crockett Drive
  • Fifth Street
  • Victoria Street
  • Delwood Drive
  • Stewart Street
  • La Vista Drive
  • Old Coleman Road
  • 18th Street
  • Longhorn Lane
  • Hickory Street
  • Danhil Drive
  • Shelton Drive
  • Crestridge Drive
  • Airport Road
  • Neumann Street
  • Dickman Drive
  • FM 2125
  • Milton Avenue
  • Morris Street
  • Opal Drive
  • Irma Street
  • North Main Street
  • Market Place Boulevard
  • West Austin Avenue
  • West Main Avenue
  • Vincent Street
  • FM 3064
  • Cottage Street
  • Asbury Street
  • Albert Sidney Johnson Drive
  • Campus Drive
  • Wood Avenue
  • Bluffview Drive
  • Oakpark Drive
  • Quail Run
  • Maple Street
  • High Mesa Drive
  • Virgil Gray Drive
  • English Avenue
  • Roanoke Avenue
  • Fairway Drive
  • Lori Lane
  • Oak Ridge Drive
  • Pecan Street
  • Romines
  • Dublin Street
  • Sheridan Road
  • Epley Street
  • Lackey Street
  • Temple Street
  • Forest Hill Drive
  • Shaw Drive
  • Davis Lane
  • Bond Street
  • Rose Lane
  • Pine Street
  • 17th Street
  • Walnut Street
  • East Baker Street
  • Tulane Drive
  • Oakdale Drive
  • Santa Clara Drive
  • Hall Street
  • Elm Street
  • Spruce Street
  • Rhodes Road
  • Hemphill Street
  • Wagon Wheel Lane
  • Peach Street
  • Indian Creek Drive
  • Clark Street
  • West Anderson Street
  • 15th Street
  • Brick Street
  • Duke Street
  • Sharp Street
  • Streckert Drive
  • Hillcrest Drive
  • Highland Drive
  • Rogan Street
  • Carey Street
  • Texas Street
  • Monterey Street

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