Texas Historical Marker

Brown Hotel

Chico · Wise County · placed 1969

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Wise County, Texas

The story

Colonel J.T. Brown founded town of Chico in 1876; built this hotel 1888. In ceremony on hotel porch, Governor Charles A.

Culberson pardoned Brown for his part in an 1895 fight fatality. Banker-tenant R. Lee Morris owned Brown Hotel from 1908 to 1965.

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