In later years, a town grew up around the site of the frontier fortress, and it is called brownsville.
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard
The East-side line runs north and south a short distance from the foothills of the Cascades, and has now got as far as brownsville, about one hundred and twenty miles from Portland.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
I should say that the town of brownsville is a lively little place, with seven or eight hundred inhabitants, and some fine woolen-mills.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash