More than 130 years ago in Brownsville or Bridgeport or West Brownsville, once each week, a newspaper was delivered to many homes in the Three Towns.  In that newspaper, which was called the Brownsville Clipper, was a summary of the week's events in the Three Towns, advertisements for local services and products, and many opinionated comments by the editor.  It made for some interesting after-dinner reading by the light of a gaslight (at first) and later, in the glow of an electric Edison bulb.

 

What if you could, just for a little while, slip back in time to the year 1889 (the earliest year for which we have microfilm of the Clipper)?   When you get back there to 1889, pick up the Clipper and read it ... or in later years, pick up the Clipper-Monitor ... or in even later years, take a look through the pages of the daily Brownsville Telegraph.

 

Just like that, after a few minutes of reading, you would find yourself immersed in the colorful personalities, the local controversies,  the forceful opinions, the big events of that year in the Three Towns, and the editor's predictions of developments for the town in the coming months and years.  What a unique experience that would be.

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Brownsville ALMANAC can take you back to those years ... right now.  Settle back, choose a year, and immerse yourself in the bustling life of a town where once upon a time, "the sidewalks were so crowded you had to walk in the street." 

 

Welcome to the Three Towns.

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To enter the unique world of Brownsville ALMANAC, click the link below.

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