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From "Monuments
Commemorating the Centenary of Texas Independence", State of Texas,
1938.
Courtesy Sarah
Reveley |
Stillman House
Museum
Another
must see in Brownsville is the
Stillman House Museum at 1305 E. Washington. Charles Stillman was
a Riverboat Captain along with Captains King and Kenedy who operated
the Steamboats plying the River as far west as Rio
Grande City and Roma.
King and Kenedy received large tracts of land in lieu of payment for
transporting troops during the Mexican War. Two counties immediately
North of the Valley bear their names. Mr. Stillman enjoyed the River
too much to leave it. |
Centennial
Marker:
Brownsville Home of Charles Stillman
1818-1875
Founder of Brownsville and partner
in firm of M. Kenedy and Company which opened the Rio Grande to steamboat
navigation and controlled much of the commerce of northern Mexico,
1848-1868.
This house, erected about 1850, was the birthplace of
JAMES STILLMAN
president of the National City Bank of New York, 1891-1909. |
"Brownsville
Home of Charles Stillman
1810-1875"
Texas Centennial
Marker
Photo courtesy Marion Koehne Anderson , March 2009 |
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