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Colonel J.T. Brown founded the town of Chico in 1876 and built this hotel in 1888. In a ceremony on the hotel porch, Governor Charles A. Culberson pardoned Brown for his part in an 1895 fight fatality. Banker-tenant R. Lee Morris owned the Brown Hotel from 1908 to 1965.
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Chico, Texas · United States
