“Brownsville was ‘without form and void’ until the opening of spring, in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and twenty-five. Goods, wares, and merchandise had been sold in Jackson from the establishing of the town, which was done in 1822 – the town lots having been sold in August of …

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