​City of
Brownwood
​(First site 1 Mi. E; second, 5 Mi. SE, Present Location)

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Marker Text: ​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)

Marker No: 882

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 31.730179,-98.973633

Location: ​Roadside Park, west of Pecan Bayou Bridge on US 67/84 on Early-Brownwood line.