An exterior portrait of Richard Brown, the first settler of Brownville, NE

ID: 492 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG2411.PH0-000670 ~ Date: 1900 circa
This file appears in: Brownville
An exterior portrait of Richard Brown, the first settler of Brownville, NE
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An exterior portrait of Richard Brown, the first settler of Brownville, NE in October of 1854. This was taken at Healdsburgh, CA, where he died after being kicked by a horse.

This file appears in: Brownville

By The Explore Nebraska History team
On August 29, 1854, shortly after the Kansas-Nebraska Act had opened the territory west of the Missouri River to permanent settlement, Richard Brown arrived on the site of the town which was to bear his name. Other settlers soon followed.…