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2409901 [ 5 ] Website. www.cityofbrenham.org. Brenham (/ ˈbrɛnəm / BREH-nəm) is a city in east-central Texas, United States, and the county seat of Washington County, [ 7 ] with a population of 17,369 according to the 2020 U.S. census.
History. Minor league baseball began in Brenham, Texas in 1905. The Brenham Cotton Pickers played briefly as members of the Class C level South Texas League. The Beaumont Oilers, with a 40–68 record, moved to Brenham on August 21, 1905. [1] The team had a 1–6 record playing exclusively in Brenham, before becoming a road team.
The Brenham Downtown Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Buildings in the district were designed by Alfred C. Finn, James Wetmore, and others in Classical Revival and other styles. [1] Included in the district is the Simon Theatre. The 1939 Washington County Courthouse is also a contributing property ...
Brenham Heritage Museum. / 30.1676; -96.3961. The Brenham Heritage Museum is a local history museum in downtown Brenham, Texas located in the former US Post Office-Federal Building-Brenham listed on the National Register of Historic Places building. [2] The museum is operated by the Brenham Heritage Museum Board of Directors, and staff members.
March 29, 1990. Designated CP. March 10, 2004. Designated RTHL. 1985. The Washington County Courthouse at 110 E. Main in Brenham, Texas is an Art Deco -style courthouse built in 1939. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 and is also part of the National Register-listed Brenham Downtown Historic District.
East Brenham Historic District is residential area located northeast of downtown Brenham, Texas . Comprising about nine city blocks, the district contains 79 contributing resources, primarily residential with a some commercial buildings and a church. The oldest building is an 1881 house, most of the buildings date from about 1875 to 1940.
Washington County is a county in Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,805. [1] Its county seat is Brenham, which is located along U.S. Highway 290, 72 miles northwest of Houston. [2] The county was created in 1835 as a municipality of Mexico and organized as a county in 1837. [3][4] It is named for George Washington, the first ...
The Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site is a historic site at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, where the Convention of 1836 adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence. The government of Texas purchased 50 acres (20 ha) of the old townsite in 1916 and built a replica of the building where the delegates met.