Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana : Historical and biographical ... . uished from itspredecessors. But not all of these National road towns have disap-peared. Some, being on the route of the railroad, became importantrailroad centers, populous cities and marts of trade, and are glorious withpromise of the future. Among these are Richmond, Indianapolis, theambitious capital city, and Terre Haute, the beautiful city of the prairie,through all of which the road forms the principal street. Brazil is a National road city; that is, the National road forms her princi-pal street, and she doubtless ow
Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana : Historical and biographical ... . uished from itspredecessors. But not all of these National road towns have disap-peared. Some, being on the route of the railroad, became importantrailroad centers, populous cities and marts of trade, and are glorious withpromise of the future. Among these are Richmond, Indianapolis, theambitious capital city, and Terre Haute, the beautiful city of the prairie,through all of which the road forms the principal street. Brazil is a National road city; that is, the National road forms her princi-pal street, and she doubtless owes something of her early growth to the road;but her origin cannot be traced to this fact wholly. Har mony had been laidout about the year 1840, and, even prior to this, Willi amtown, four mileswest of Brazil, was at that time the trading point for the surroundingcountry for many miles in all directions. The only important crossingwhere it seemed a town might be located was the junction of the Na-tional and Rockville, Bowling Green and Spencer State roads, two miles. j^,AJ/.^.J^.^. BRAZIL CITY AND TOWNSHIP. 141 west of Brazil, where the well-known Kennedy tavern, still standing,was built about the year 1824. Perhaps the only reason why a townwas never located there was the fact that Mr. Kennedy was sole pro-prietor of 200 acres of valuable farming land centering there, anddid not wish to part with it for even that purpose. Brazil owes her ex-istence to the faith and enterprise of her founder, Mr. Owen Thorpe was not pleased with the outlook before Harmony, and not-ing a lack of that energy at Williamstown which the times seemed to de-mand, he purchased, in 1838 or 1839, a tract of land lying between Me-ridian and Factory streets in the present city of Brazil, and extendingfrom the Vandalia Railroad on the south to Morton street on the is now Meridian street was a part of a county road that inter-sected the Rockville & Bowling Green road a few miles south
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