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Sep 20, 2023 · Thomas Maples began weekly publication of the Brady Sentinel in 1880; by 1884 Brady had two churches, a district school, three stores, two hotels, and 300 residents. Stock raising was the primary occupation in the Brady area before 1900.
Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement buffer in Texas between the Plains Indians and the rest of Mexico.
The Western Trail from south Texas to the Kansas railheads ran through Brady from the mid-1870s to the early 1880s. Railroads arrived in 1903 and 1912, making Brady a principal shipping point for a large region of Central Texas, with an economy based on ranching and farming.
When the area was settled in the 1870s, the community was named Brady City after Brady Creek, which runs through town. The name was shortened to Brady when the town was incorporated in 1906. In 1787–1788, Spanish explorer José Mares crossed the creek near the site of present Brady.
Oct 7, 2015 · The population more than doubled during the 1880s (to 3,217 in 1890), and a new courthouse was built (at the cost of $33,000!) in 1900, but it was the arrival of the railroad in 1903 that brought real growth and prosperity to Brady, Texas.
Individual land ownership, Christian worship, and education for children became the cornerstones of this new assault on Native life and culture. Beginning in the 1880s, clergymen, government officials, and social workers all worked to assimilate Native peoples into American life.
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When the area was settled in the 1870s, the community was named Brady City after Brady Creek, which runs through town. The name was shortened to Brady when the town was incorporated in 1906. In 1787–88 Spanish explorer José Mares crossed the creek near the site of present Brady.
