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HARVEY,
TEXASBrazos County,
Central Texas S
Farm Road 30
2 miles SE of Bryan
Population: 310 (1990)
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History
in a Pecan Shell
The area that now includes Harvey received its first settlers in the
1860s.
Established in 1879, Harvey was named in honor of Booneville's blacksmith,
Brazos County clerk, sheriff, tax assessor/collector and surveyor,
Harvey Mitchell. In his spare time he was a minister, store owner,
and hotel keeper. Colonel Mitchell served all of these offices/ occupations
simultaneously and still found time to grow a beard. He was said to
have married a couple who was passing through the area and had come
to his blacksmith shop to have one of their horses shod. |
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Portrait
of Harvey Mitchell aka The Father of Brazos County
Photo Courtesy Carnegie Center of Brazos Valley History |
Mitchell
was later known as the "Father of Brazos County" and the man is remembered
today by the above oil painting hanging in the Carnegie Center of
Brazos Valley History in downtown Bryan. The center also has Mr. Mitchel's
original brass surveying compass on display.
In 1890 the Harvey, Texas post office opened in the grocery store
of J. W. Barron.
Cotton production, the mainstay economy of the area, was eventually
replaced by ranching and the population of Harvey, a mere twenty-five
persons in 1910, increased to only 110 by the mid-1960s.
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