Brady, Texas Brady, Texas Mc - Culloch County Courthouse in Brady Mc - Culloch County Courthouse in Brady Location of Brady, Texas Location of Brady, Texas Brady is a town/city in Mc - Culloch County, Texas, United States.
Brady refers to itself as "The Heart of Texas", as it is the closest town/city to the geographical center of the state.
The geographical center of Texas is about 15 miles northeast of Brady.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Brady has a total region of 11.5 square miles (30 km2), of which, 9.2 square miles (24 km2) of it is territory and 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2) of it (20.16%) is water.
When the region was settled in the 1870s, the improve was titled Brady City after Brady Creek, which runs through town.
After inhabitants of Mc - Culloch County chose Brady as governmental center of county on May 15, 1876, the town interval fairly quickly.
Brady had about fifty inhabitants in 1877, and a contemporary courthouse was instead of in 1878.
Thomas Maples began weekly printed announcement of the Brady Sentinel in 1880; by 1884 Brady had two churches, a precinct school, three stores, two hotels, and 300 residents.
When the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway appeared in 1903, Brady became a principal shipping point for Central Texas.
In 1926 Brady inhabitants jubilated the building of forty-two-acre Richards Park by holding a two-day barbecue on the Fourth of July weekend; it was such a success that the celebration was labeled the "July Jubilee" and became an annual event.
Curtis Field opened just north of Brady in 1942 as a pilot-training school.
Brady interval slowly from the 1920s through the 1950s, with populace estimates reaching a peak of 6,800 in 1958.
In 1959 the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway abandoned the section of track between Brownwood and Brady, thereby reducing Brady's access to outside markets.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe abandoned the track between Brady and Eden in 1972, leaving the town with only a branch track to connect it with the chief line at Lometa, in Lampasas County.
Brady had 5,925 inhabitants and 142 businesses in 1988.
Rollie White Downs, one of the first horse racetracks in Texas after the passage of pari-mutuel laws in 1989, directed briefly in Brady but was unprofitable and closed by 1990.
Brady's populace in 1990 was 5,946, but dropped to 5,528 in 2010. James Earl Rudder taught and coached football at Brady High School in 1933.
Children in Brady and Melvin attend Brady ISD schools.
Brady Middle School consists of grades 6-8.
Brady High School consists of grades 9-12 with Eric Bierman as principal.
Brady High School is a TEA Recognized campus.
Heart of Texas Healthcare System is the major hospital serving Brady In 1947 the State of Texas opened the Brady State School for Negro Girls on a former prisoner of war camp in Mc - Culloch County, near Brady, leased from the Federal Government of the United States.
In 1950 the state replaced the Brady facility with the Crockett State School. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Brady has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl, "BRADY, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hfb04), accessed November 23, 2013.
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