Brownsville, Tennessee Historic Properties Survey

Thomason and Associates

From introduction: "This survey work built upon previous survey work completed through research for a National Register of Historic Places nomination for College Hill Historic District completed in 1979. Brownsville is located in West Tennessee and is the county seat of Haywood County. Haywood County is directly bounded by Crockett County to the north, Tipton and Lauderdale Counties to the west, Fayette & Hardeman Counties to the south and Madison County to the east. Brownsville is approximately 60 miles east of Memphis, Tennessee... The survey project area included every accessible road within the city. This included the annex south on Highway 76 connecting to I-40. Geographically, Brownsville is in the flatter plains of West Tennessee with an elevation of approximately 390 ft. and is also situated on the southeastern edge of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Brownsville’s topography ranges from sparse woodlands to broad low-lands and cultivated tracts of cropland." Funding was provided in part through a fiscal year 2012 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Brownsville (project number TN-12-023) administered by the Tennessee State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 47-12-41949) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Brownsville, Tennessee is a Certified Local Government.

Brownsville, Tennessee Historic Properties Survey

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