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Location of Brown County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Brown County, Texas.. This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brown County, Texas.
Lake Brownwood State Park is a state park located on the shore of Lake Brownwood in Brown County, Texas, United States, and is administered by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The 537.5 acre park was acquired by deed from the Brown County Water Improvement District No. 1 in 1933. [ 2 ]
Brownwood is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Texas, United States. [4] The population was 18,862 as of the 2020 census . [ 5 ] Brownwood is in the Texas Hill Country and is home to Howard Payne University , which was founded in 1889.
Brown County is a county in west-central Texas.As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,095. [1] [2] Its county seat is Brownwood. [3]The county was founded in 1856 and organized in 1858. [4]
It was established in 1895 by a group of Quakers led by T. Hadley Lewis and Frank J. Brown. They were looking for a "promised land" to start a colony of the people who belonged to the religious denomination called Friends or Quakers. From its founding, life in Friendswood revolved around church and school.
St. John's Church is a historic church at 700 Main Avenue in Brownwood, Texas.It is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth in the Anglican Church in North America.. It was built in 1892 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 under the name St. John's Episcopal Church.
Lake Brownwood is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Brown County in central Texas, United States. The population was 1,532 at the 2010 census. The population was 1,532 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ]
Brownwood attorney William Harding Mayes purchased the weeklies Brownwood Bulletin in the 1886 and Brownwood Banner in the 1887, consolidating them into the Brownwood Banner-Bulletin. [2] His brother H.F. Mayes and he started the daily Brownwood Daily Bulletin on October 15, 1900. He published the newspaper until 1914. [3]