Saronic Announces Texas Site for New $3.2B Shipyard
Saronic selects Brownsville, Texas for $3.2B shipyard to build commercial and defense vessels.
Jul 20, 2026Open source
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Brownsville, Texas. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Cameron. Associated ZIP codes: 78520, 78521, 78522, 78523, 78526.
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Texas brothers get 15 years for $8M armed crypto robbery in Grant
Two Texas men who held a Grant family at gunpoint for nine hours and stole $8 million in cryptocurrency from them were sentenced to at least 15 years each in...
Nov 3, 2026Open source
Student pilot killed in McMinnville helicopter collision identified
Christopher Joughin, 31, of the United Kingdom, was a student pilot on a Robinson R22 helicopter on Thursday. He was flying with his instructor, 22-year-old...
Nov 3, 2026Open source
Aggies defeat North Texas in home meet
The NM State swimming and diving team opened its home slate with a 133-110 victory over North Texas on Friday evening at The Beast - Eastside Regional Recrea...
Nov 2, 2026Open source
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Brownsville is in Cameron County, Texas.
Region: Texas Gulf Coast
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78520, 78521, 78522, 78523, 78526
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Texas brothers get 15 years for $8M armed crypto robbery in Grant
Two Texas men who held a Grant family at gunpoint for nine hours and stole $8 million in cryptocurrency from them were sentenced to at least 15 years each in...
Nov 3, 2026Open source
Student pilot killed in McMinnville helicopter collision identified
Christopher Joughin, 31, of the United Kingdom, was a student pilot on a Robinson R22 helicopter on Thursday. He was flying with his instructor, 22-year-old...
Nov 3, 2026Open source
Aggies defeat North Texas in home meet
The NM State swimming and diving team opened its home slate with a 133-110 victory over North Texas on Friday evening at The Beast - Eastside Regional Recrea...
Nov 2, 2026Open source
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In 1781 Spanish officials granted Jose Salvador de la Garza 59 leagues of land, and he built a ranch northwest of the present city. In the early 1800s residents called the area los tejidos, "the pasturelands." On February 4, 1846, President James K. Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor, whose troops included Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant, south to the Rio Grande, where Taylor built Fort Texas. On April 25, 1846, Captain Seth B. Thornton and 63 dragoons were surrounded at Rancho de Carricitos by General Anastasio Torrejon's 1,600 Mexican troops and forced to surrender, one of the clashes that began the Mexican-American War. The fort was renamed Fort Brown for Major Jacob Brown, one of two Americans killed in the siege of Fort Texas.
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Charles Stillman had come from Connecticut to Matamoros in 1828 to help in his father's cotton business. After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 he formed the Brownsville Town Company with Samuel Belden and Simon Mussina, and they sold lots, reportedly worth $1,500, after displacing earlier residents. Brownsville became the seat of Cameron County on January 13, 1849, and was incorporated on January 24, 1850. The charter was repealed on April 1, 1852, because of a dispute over land ownership between Stillman and the former owners, among them the Mexican rancher Juan Cortina. The city was reincorporated on February 7, 1853, and the U.S. Supreme Court did not settle the ownership in Stillman's favor until 1879. Sources Wikipedia: Brownsville, Texas
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25.9337430, -97.5174130
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