share: digg facebook twitter First settled by freed slaves after the Civil War, the site was once known as Andy, after Andrew Bragg, a former slave and the first black landowner in the area, according to the Handbook of Texas Online. A post office was authorized in 1917, and by the early 1920s, the town had two general stores, a blacksmith shop, several cotton gins, an eleven-grade school, a …
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