Historical Marker
Brown Hotel
Historical marker location:
Decatur St., Chico, Texas
( Decatur Street, one block east of square -Chico)
Marker installed: 1969
Colonel J.T. Brown founded town of Chico in 1876; built this hotel 1888. In ceremony on hotel porch, Governor Charles A. Culberson pardoned Brown for his part in an 1895 fight fatality. Banker-tenant R. Lee Morris owned Brown Hotel from 1908 to 1965.