Editing Brenham, Texas (section)

==History==
The area surrounding Brenham was occupied by various Native American tribes through the 19th century. The Brenham area was part of the [[Old Three Hundred]], the first authorized colonization of Texas by Anglo-Americans led by [[Stephen F. Austin]]. In the 1820s and 1830s, several small communities developed in the area. In 1843, the Hickory Grove community was renamed Brenham in memory of a local physician, [[Richard Fox Brenham]], who died while serving in the Texian militia during the [[Mier Expedition]]. On February 4, 1844, Washington County voters selected Brenham to become the county seat. German immigrants settled in Brenham as early as 1846. With the exception of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] years, the German-born population of Brenham increased throughout the second half of the 19th century. The largest numbers of German immigrants arrived between 1880 and 1883. Jewish immigrants to Brenham established one of Texas' [[B'nai Abraham Synagogue (Brenham, Texas)|first Orthodox synagogues]] in 1885,<ref>{{cite web |title=City of Brenham |url=https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/NatReg/NR/NR_listed/Districts/brenham.pdf |website=Texas Historical Commission |access-date=26 April 2022}}</ref> which was relocated to [[Austin, Texas|Austin]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kamaras |first=Jacob |date=2015-11-04 |title=In Austin, 19th-century Synagogue meets 21st-century Jewish Community |url=https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/in-austin-19th-century-synagogue-meets-21st-century-jewish-community/ |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=eJewish Philanthropy}}</ref>