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Brown County is a county in west-central Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 38,106.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48049.html )〕 Its county seat is Brownwood.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was founded in 1856 and later organized in 1858. It is named for Henry Stevenson Brown, a commander at the Battle of Velasco. The Brownwood, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Brown County. ==History== *Among first inhabitants were the Penteka. *1721 The Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo expedition is said to have passed through the county. *1838 Land surveys are made of the area.〔 *1856 Mississippi transplant Welcome W. Chandler becomes the first settler, arriving with his family, John H. Fowler, and seven slaves. They built a log cabin on Pecan Bayou. The county is formed from Comanche and Travis. It is named after pioneer from Kentucky, Henry Stevenson Brown.〔 *1858 The county is organized.〔 Brownwood is the county seat. *1874 John Wesley Hardin and gang celebrate his 21st birthday in Brown and Comanche Counties. Deputy Charles Webb draws his gun, provoking a gunfight that ends Webb’s life. A lynch mob is formed, but Hardin and his family are put into protective custody. The mob breaks into the jail and hangs his brother Joe and two cousins. Hardin flees. *1875 The Fort Worth-Brownwood stage is robbed five times in two months.〔 *1879 Oil is discovered on the H. M. Barnes farm near Grosvenor.〔 *1886 Texas Rangers kill two fence cutters in the ongoing battle between farmers and ranchers over fencing open range.〔 *1890 Cotton becomes the county’s important crop.〔Pulitzer Prize author Katherine Ann Porter is born at Indian Creek. *1889 Howard Payne College and Daniel Baker College are established in Brownwood. *1892 The Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway is built to the county.〔 *1895 The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway built into Brownwood.〔 *1903 The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe line extends the line to Menard. The county votes itself a dry county. Alcohol would not become legal again until the 1950s.〔 *1909 The boll weevil moves into the county, destroying the cotton economy.〔 *1917 First commercial production of oil comes from the efforts of Jack Pippen at Brownwood.〔 *1919 The first large field begins producing from a depth of in 1919 near Cross Cut.〔 *1926 An oil boom follows the success of the White well on Jim Ned Creek; some 600 wells are drilled in several fields in the county during this time.〔 *1938 Lake Brownwood State Park opens to the public.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/lake_brownwood/ )〕 *1940 Work begins on Camp Bowie . *1943 The first German prisoners of war arrive; many are members of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps. *1953 Howard Payne College and Daniel Baker College combine under the name Howard Payne College.〔 *1991 More than of oil had been taken from Brown County lands since 1917.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brown County, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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