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The Night Brenham Went Up In Flames
On Sep. 26, 1866, a special joint committee of the Texas House and Senate submitted its official report on the recent tragedy in Brenham to the governor.
Brenham was spared the hard times that the Civil War brought to communities across the South. On the contrary, the town today best known for the Blue Bell creamery experienced an economic boom and population surge that transformed it into the…
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