What a wonderful look at life in 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Brenham and Washington Counties and their people.

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1915.

The History

 of

Brenham and Washington County,

By Mrs. R. E. Pennington

Standard Printing & Lithographing Company

Houston, Texas

1915

125 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Short History of Texas
  Some Historical Facts about Washington County
  Life of Dr. Richard Fox Brenham
  Brenham,--
 County Seat
 Town Commissioners and Original Site
 First Settlers
 First Census
 Railroads
 C.S.A. Soldiers
 Reconstruction Days
 Yellow fever epidemic
 Germania Verein
 Banks
 Some Pioneer Merchants
 Newspapers
 Public library
 City Administration
 Fire department
 Education -- W.D. Notley, J.L. Neu
 Religion
  The Giddings'
  Sketches of Chauncy B., James E. and Seth Shepard
  W.W. Searcy
  T.A. Low
  S.D.W. Low
  Washington on the Brazos
  Some early German settlers of Washington County and their descendants.
 The Schuerenbergs'
 C. Klaerner
 H.F. Hohlt 
  Sketch of Hugh Kerr
  Poems