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Wooster, Baytown, Texas. Coordinates: 29°44′56″N95°01′55″W. Wooster is an area of Baytown, Texas, United States that used to be a distinct unincorporated community in Harris County . Wooster is named after Quincy Adams Wooster, from Monona County, Iowa. He purchased over 1,000 acres in 1892 and founded the township of Wooster, which ...
1372753 [2] Website. brownwoodtexas .gov. 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 located in the Northern Texas Hill Country [clarification needed] and is home to Howard Payne University, which was founded in 1889.
Mills County is a county located in Central Texas, United States. [1] It was created on March 15, 1887, from parts of four existing counties— Brown, Comanche, Hamilton, and Lampasas —and named after John T. Mills. [2] [3] [1] The 2020 census reported a population of 4,456. [4] The county seat is Goldthwaite. [5]
Greenleaf Fisk (1807–1888) was a pioneer, known as "the Father of Brownwood, Texas". When a land and water dispute necessitated a new site for Brown County's seat of Brownwood, Fisk donated the land for the new location. He was a military veteran of the Texas Revolution and was a member of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives.
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. There are six properties listed on the National Register in the county.
Lake Brownwood State Park. / 31.85694°N 99.02861°W / 31.85694; -99.02861. 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 ...
Brookesmith, Texas. / 31.55056°N 99.11861°W / 31.55056; -99.11861. Brookesmith is an unincorporated community in Brown County, Texas, United States. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 61 in 2000. It is located within the Brownwood, Texas micropolitan area.
The Baytown Nature Center was, for many years, a highly desirable residential neighborhood known as Brownwood with nearly 400 substantial homes on a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) peninsula. In 1961, Hurricane Carla devastated the Texas Gulf Coast, flooding most of Brownwood and ending any new development in the area.