Interesting.
My talk on Brownsville was this: the old one was the actual Brownsville in Prairie County, later Lonoke
County. After the battle in August of 63, the courthouse was torn down and made a barracks for Yankee
soldiers and its sight was on what is now Hwy70.
Then, the area that we commonly refer to as Hicks Station, just across the road from
a now cemetery, was often called "Brownsville" and it was several miles south of where
the original one was. Very confusing, I know.
Somewhere in all of this discussion it was said that 400 Irish laborers worked on the road, I believe.
Thanks-Linda