Brushy (Brushey/Cottonwood/Haram/Wellborn)

Brazos County, TX

Status: Located

Year Established: 1900s

Council of Governments: BVCOG

Public History: There are no current descriptions related to Brushy in the public record. If you are aware of any sources that we may have missed please share them with us.

Community History: Home demonstration work has been conducted with 15 Black communities in the county along with 13 women’s home demonstrations, 12 girls 4H clubs, 6 women’s committee’s and 7 4h club committees. (1940). The main industries at the time were ranching and farming. Agriculture was the main enterprise and the primary source of employment. These communities were documented to have had primary 4H involvement: Kurten, Fairview, Cedar Grove, Wixon, Brushy, Roan’s Chapel, Harem, Stone City, Wellborn, and Canaan. Cottonwood community had a significant amount of success with a scrap metal drive by the 4-H boys club for war emergency help (1942). The 4H clubs played a a huge part in serving the community and instilling various skills to the children.4 H club boys trained to keep records of all activities involving cost of production and marketing which was fairly different to food production and agricultural skills that they were typically taught.

The community of Brushy lies approximately five miles west of College Station in Brazos County, Texas, on Farm-to-Market Highway 60. It was founded at the turn of the century atop a high terrace adjoining the Brazos River. The common motives for settling in Brushy were the opportunities to buy inexpensive land and to live among kinfolk, most of whom had been tenant farmers in the Brazos River bottomlands. The inhabitants enjoy a common tradition which preservers the “folk” continuity in gardening from generation to generation by word of mouth.

Cemetery: Brushy Cemetery

Church: Clayton Baptist Church, St. Mark’s Baptist Church