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35 unusual facts about Brownsville


Bible Mennonite Fellowship

There are three churches in the conference; one in Brownsville, Oregon, one in Sheridan, Oregon, and one in Woodside, Montana.

Brownsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania

The Brownsville Road Bridge, which spans over the Spring Creek between Lower and North Heidelberg Townships, was constructed in 1962.

Brownsville, Florida

However, the wake of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (which outlawed the restrictive housing covenants which prevented most Blacks from moving to suburbs) and riots during the 1968 Republican National Convention brought the black flight of middle- and upper-class families from the community.

Brownsville, Ontario

an early settlement of Woodbridge, Ontario, founded between 1802-1837, now subsumed by Woodbridge

Brownsville, Tennessee

He recorded, toured Europe, Japan and shortly before his death in 1997 returned to Brownsville to perform Jug Band recordings with John Sebastian and the J-Band.

In the song Delta Dawn (recorded by Tanya Tucker and others), the lyric "All the folks around Brownsville say she's crazy" is a reference to Brownsville, Tennessee.

Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport

In addition to flight status text-messaging notification, the site also features current fares to popular routes, including Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Querétaro.

Carlos Manuel Pruneda

He boarded a cab and drove to the US border crossing at Brownsville, Texas where he asked for asylum.

Charles D. Tandy

Charles Tandy was born in Brownsville, Texas to Dave L. Tandy, who ran the Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company with his friend Norton Hinckley.

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899

At the Idaho governor's request, President William McKinley sent black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas and other areas, veterans of the Spanish-American war, to round up 1,000 men and put them into bullpens.

Daniel Showalter

In March 1864, Lt. Col. Daniel Showalter joined the force under John Salmon Ford and led his regiment in fighting around Brownsville, Texas, to drive the Union troops out of South Texas.

Dorothy Langley

Dorothy Selma Richardson was born on February 14, 1904 at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas, where her father was serving with the US Army.

Efren Saldivar

Born in Brownsville, Texas, he graduated from the College of Medical and Dental Careers in North Hollywood, California in 1988.

Erik Martin Dilan

Erik Martin Dilan currently represents District 37 in the New York City Council, which comprises the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick, Cypress Hills, East New York, Ocean Hill, and Brownsville.

Gladys Porter High School

Gladys Porter High School is a 5A public high school in Brownsville, Texas and is the successor of "Brownsville High School".

James Lorraine Geddes

In October 1863, he was given command of a brigade and sent to Brownsville, Texas.

James William Boyd

His son James received a letter to meet Boyd in Brownsville, Texas, for a trip to Mexico, but Boyd never showed up for the rendezvous and no further contact was ever received from him.

Monongahela Railway

The primary connection to both controlling systems was at Brownsville, Pennsylvania - with the south end of the P&LE's Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad and with the PRR's ex-Brownsville Railway.

N. Nick Perry

He currently represents District 58, which comprises East Flatbush, as well as portions of Canarsie and Brownsville, among other neighborhoods located in the borough of Brooklyn.

National Industrial Recovery Act

Among the projects it funded between 1935 and 1939 are: the USS Yorktown; USS Enterprise; the 30th Street railroad station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Triborough Bridge; the port of Brownsville; Grand Coulee Dam; Boulder Dam; Fort Peck Dam; Bonneville Dam; and the Overseas Highway connecting Key West, Florida, with the mainland.

Norma V. Cantu

She graduated from Brownsville High School(now Hanna High School) in Brownsville, Texas in 1971.

Cantú started her career as an English teacher in Brownsville, Texas, in 1974.

Phantom shiner

The native range of the phantom shiner was the Rio Grande from Espanola downstream to Brownsville, Texas.

Port St. Joe, Florida

Port St. Joe is traversed by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW), a federally maintained canal with a channel of 12 feet (3.6 m) deep by 125 feet (38 m) wide, which provides access from St. Marks, Florida, to Brownsville, Texas.

Q4000

Q4000 is a unique multi-purpose oil field construction and intervention vessel commissioned in 1999 by Cal Dive International, and was built at the Keppel AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas.

Renata Chlumska

She paddled a kayak from Seattle to San Diego, bicycled with the kayak on a carriage from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, continued kayaking around Florida to Eastport, Maine, and then bicycled back to Seattle.

Richard Delafield

While superintendent of repair work on the Cumberland Road east of the Ohio River, he designed and built Dunlap's Creek Bridge in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, the first cast-iron tubular-arch bridge in the United States.

Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc.

In the early 1980s several small first-time investors in Brownsville, Texas, opened accounts with Shearson/American Express agent Jon Grady Deaton.

Sandesh Kadur

Sandesh Kadur did his schooling from The Home School, Bangalore and graduated in Wildlife Biology from The University of Texas at Brownsville.

Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon

Several cases brought by investors from Brownsville, Texas, also Shearson clients, who claimed to have lost almost half a million dollars in fraudulent or malfeasant trades were combined under Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express Inc., filed suit under both acts.

Southern Indiana Toll Road

Together these corridors mandate the construction of an Interstate highway from Port Huron, Michigan to Brownsville, Texas.

SS Guiding Star

She served until June 1973, when she was scrapped at Brownsville, Texas.

Thomas J. Cason

Born near Brownsville, Indiana, Cason moved to Boone County with his parents, who settled on a farm near Thorntown in 1832.

Tim Michels

Timothy J. Michels (born August 7, 1962) is a businessman from Brownsville, Wisconsin.

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

In response to the need for graduate public health education in other geographic areas of the state, the School of Public Health established regional campuses in San Antonio (1979), El Paso (1992), Dallas (1998), Brownsville (2000), and Austin (2007).


37th Street

37th Street (Savannah), a historic divided boulevard passing through the Cuyler-Brownsville and Mid-City historic districts, part of which forms part of Georgia State Route 204

Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee

On October 22, Schlesselman and Cowart shot at a glass window on the front door of the Allen Baptist Church in Brownsville, Tennessee.

Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway

Yoakum's plan envisioned using the Rock Island and Frisco, together with several railroads to be built in Texas and Louisiana and now known as the Gulf Coast Lines, to form a continuous line of railroad extending from Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis to Baton Rouge, Houston, Brownsville, Tampico and Mexico City.

Beeville, Texas

TTa operated scheduled passenger flights with Douglas DC-3 prop airliners from Chase Field with service to Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, Houston, San Antonio and other destinations in Texas.

Charles Fuller

His 1975 play The Brownsville Raid is based on the Brownsville Affair, an altercation between black soldiers and white civilians in Brownsville, Texas, in 1906, which led to an entire black regiment being dishonorably discharged though later pardoned in 1976.

Dark territory

The Union Pacific Railroad uses dark territory on the Sharon Springs Subdivision in western Kansas, the Lost Springs Subdivision between Herington, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas, the Brownsville Subdivision in south Texas, as well as on several under-used lines in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Eddie Lucio, Jr.

Lucio has worked to establish the partnership between the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College which allows UTB to become a four-year university and have access to the Permanent University Fund.

Gulf Coast Lines

Yoakum's planned extensions of the GCL from Brownsville to Tampico and Mexico City, as well as from Baton Rouge to Memphis, never materialized.

Horacena J. Taylor

Starting in the early 1970s, Taylor has worked extensively as a stage manager on numerous productions for the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) including The Sty of the Blind Pig, The First Breeze of Summer and The Brownsville Raid.

Interstate 69

Among these proposed spurs are an extension of Interstate 530 from Pine Bluff, Arkansas (known as "the Dickey Split," for its champion, congressman Jay Dickey), an upgrade of U.S. Route 59 from Texarkana, Texas, and a split in southern Texas to serve three border crossings at Laredo, Pharr-McAllen, and Brownsville.

Interstate 69 in Texas

I-69E (which connects to both Mexican Federal Highway 101 and Mexican Federal Highway 180 south of the border) begins in the middle of the Veterans International Bridge at the border in Brownsville and continues for 53 miles past Raymondville.

Juan Cortina

When he was 3, his family moved to the Rio Grande Valley, as his mother had inherited vast tracts of land in the area surrounding Matamoros and Brownsville.

Order in the Court

#"Brownsville" (featuring Le Fem Markita, Scarlet and Nikki D) – 4:40

PADRES

After being pressured, however, the NCCB agreed to set up an "informal liaison committee" of five bishops: Furey, Manning of Los Angeles, Green of Tucson, Medeiros of Brownsville, and Buswell of Pueblo.

Rafael Cárdenas Vela

According to The Houston Chronicle, the court session was only available to those who were able to walk into the courthouse in Brownsville, Texas or who had subscribed to an online federal document service.

Redstone Creek

The river crossing and flats at Redstone Creek, the earliest point and shortest distance the choices a wagon road descent could follow (later in the war, fortified as Fort Burd, now Brownsville) was one of several possible destinations.

Santos Benavides

On March 18, 1864, Major Alfred Holt led a force of about two hundred men of the Union First Texas Cavalry who were stationed near Brownsville, Texas under the command of Colonel Edmund J. Davis, who had earlier offered Benavides a Union Generalship.

SpaceX private launch site

As of January 2014, the leading candidate location for the new facility is a parcel of land adjacent to Boca Chica Beach near Brownsville, Texas.

U.S. Route 77 in Texas

U.S. Route 77 (US 77) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from the Veterans International Bridge in Brownsville to Sioux City, Iowa.

Violet, Texas

He advertised in several Texas German newspapers and secured the endorsement of Reverend Peter Verdauger, the apostolic vicar of Brownsville (the precursor to the Diocese of Corpus Christi).