I moved from Massachusetts to south Texas. Well Matamoros, but I'm a truck driver out of Brownsville, Texas. Transcar Express, Boi. I absolutely love it down there. I never wanna leave.
@@ericpoulin6985 well as a trucker I get up there quite a bit. I literally just left from Boston 2 days ago heading back to that Sweet sweet valley that in The RGV!
My home town. Haven't been to visit since 2015. It's awesome to see they have added so many historical sites. Thank you for taking the time and including Brownsville in your videos. God bless you all.
You shouldn't return, gunner5050. Nothing to see, but relics, and a bunch of rude, boring people. Albeit the relics, I do respect. I guess Elon with his rockets are.....well sown by the bay, where the watermelons grow.
Baseball was invented in Brownsville! During the war, an officer was standing on the porch of what is today the provost's office on the university's campus, when a grapeshot just whizzed by him. He thought that if he just had a two-by-four, he could have sent it back where it came from... that gave him the idea, and next day (or so) the soldiers of Fort Brown played the first baseball game in American history. True story, and I believe there's a plaque on the provost's office commemorating the beginnings of baseball.
Born and raised here in Brownsville, Texas. We used to live by 234 Dew St not far from the B&M Bridge in a section known back then as "La Muralla" where we would play on "El bordo" and hunt for jackrabbits with our slingshots or birds with our BB guns. Lot of history along the border and Brownsville was right in the center of it. Still living here except for when I joined the military 1975-1982 but it's grown so much since way back when.
@@AC-ul6ge nope D street was the one street and Dew street was right in front of the "Bordo". There was also Bates St as you passed Dew St. Just to make sure that I hadn't gotten it right I googled the address and it's correct 234 Dew St.
I lived in Brownsville for a couple of years in the late 80s as a kid. My grandmother would take me to matamoros every weekend. Great memories. I met Barbara Bush in Brownsville when she was campaigning for her husband, Bush Sr. Also remember there was a Woolworths downtown. If not mistaken it had a diner that I did get to eat at once
@@connievalencia7233 I knew I wasn't imagining that diner in that Woolworths. Thanks. I also remember a restaurant downtown called Lucio's if not mistaken. Do you know of this restaurant by chance.
I'm from Monterrey and haven't been to Brownsville in 4 years, but your video makes me want to go right now. As soon as the borders open, first place I'm going! Thanks for posting this video.
@@nicole-wf4pe I don't need any of that to have fond memories of a place. It'd be extra cool if it were a more diverse place, but I don't need that to love the RGV.
@Miguel Valdez Lopez Texas is a big state. Striving for diversity over every square inch of ground is folly. As a whole we are blessed with diversity, my friend. In 1896 my forebears came to the south central tall grass prairies of the TX Panhandle from a little town west of Wichita Falls. 125 yrs later I'm still up here in one of the two richest agricultural counties in TX. Though I can do without the cities, I find I have something in common wherever I go in my native state.
...my beautiful city...I wasn't born here, but I was raised here since I was 5...and God willing, I will die and be buried here, under cerulean skies...on the border, by the sea...indeed...
Born & raised there I can remember when we use to play in that old train it used to sit next the Jacob Brown Auditorium but it did not look like that back then ....
Thanks for an episode in the Valley. You could spend much time in this area doing episodes. I’m in Harlingen and will go to Brownsville to do a walk about.
Good friends Were hired to restore store the downtown historical District of Brownsville They offer me a position helping them this was 50 years ago. It's nice to see a video like this Show long ago
Saw the name Brownsville in my recommendations and just had to click! To think that I drive by a bunch of these places and have never once thought about their importance!
I commend you for your work sir! I appreciate it very much indeed! This is a criminally under subscribed channel! I've watched two of your videos before now but this is my very first comment on your channel. Thank you very much for documenting the little known facts about Texas history in these towns. 👌👌👌
My hometown left when i was about 23 years old in 1985 and went to college and to live my life only to always wanting to come back home and finally came back home in 2020 it has grown into a big beautiful city i love it here
Thank you for showing and sharing my home town! You showed everything wonderfully, and even to someone who has lived here his whole life, you showed me things I have never seen or heard of! Thank you again.
😆 I feel the same about ppl who come to the TX Panhandle & bitch about the wind & blowing dust. 🎵"Hit the road Jack, & don'cha come back no mo, no mo..."🎵
I was born in Brownsville in 1998 and lived there since my childhood but my family moved to Virginia and lived there for 17 years, got so accustomed to vacationing in my hometown with all of my extended family that it became a permanent stay as we moved back to Brownsville this year (2024)
I can't believe all those sites you just showed up in Brownsville!, I've never seen any of those when I'm in Brownsville. Will definitely visit them! Thanks.
This is what the news does not want you seeing. look how beautiful our RGV is. holds so much national history. all you hear about us now is drugs, cartel, immigration. that is not at all what we are about. we have a beautiful and rich culture. thank you so much for this video.
The Baldwin Locomotive works near Eddystone and Ridley PA is now a Walmart. The factory was torn down some years ago. I remember it when I worked at Boeing Helicopters in the '90s. It is neat to see a Baldwin locomotive in the museum in Brownsville. Just another thing to add to my bucket list.
So much history here - we had no idea! The headstones have taken me back a bit - they are in the same style as the British ones of the same era. Looks like the British might of had quite an influence in this department too? @12:23 that is a colourful sight. Amazing cemetery. Hope someone has mapped out where everyone has been laid to rest. Great historical value there i believe. When i worked on our family history i actually mapped out and recorded the details of every headstone in every cemetary i visited. Yes it was a major undertaking over many years! but iinvaluable to me. 👍 👊 🇬🇧
I grew up north of Mission Tx another awesome town I moved to Brownsville 12 years ago got a house in Boca chica love that Brownsville is separate from the rest of the valley
My home town when in was like. 10 years old me and my freind when playing in. His back yard. And. Found and an old iron. For ironing clothing back in the days. .. That they heat 🔥up in coals .We both took it to that museum. They. Took are info and left. The building. Jajajajajaja wonder if they have it still😁
King and Kennedy ranch along with McAllen where originally stolen through either marriage or execution (hangings) and Mexican Americans that helped Texas become Texas,like Seguin and De Zavala. Helped American settlers... yet where themselves branded at Mexican spies and it isn't until recently that they get the respect and recognition they deserve. So calling king and Kennedy entrepreneurs is a bit of selling point. A Lipan Apache"
I love my hometown of, Brownsville and while we do have all these historical sites, we also have Space X, and will be one of only a few cities to have air taxi service in a few years.
How about another Brownsville segment highlighting their shiny new airport terminal building (and the historic Pan Am terminal building) and the SpaceX complex investment out Boca Chica way?
Lived in Brownsville for a shortwhile relocating my Mother. We enjoyed the Zoo daily and resacas waterfront places to eat. Space X should be part of the New Brownsville.
30miles North of. Brownsville, the last battle of the civil war was fought, one month after the war ,was over.rebels killed 15 Yanks, that came to tell them, war was over
I don't think so I went by there like 2 weeks ago we use to rent there in the 1977 when my dad use to work in Houston when we came back we stay there I been living here since 1980
@@secretsoftexas6872 the unlimited wisdom of the local government to let nature retake this historic and hallowed piece of blood soaked land, where good soldiers of both America and Mexico gave their lives for their countries, A disgraceful spit in the face to the militaries of both Mexico and America.
@@NorceCodine Don't know about a number. I do know that after Gen. Zachary Taylor arrived to take command, he renamed it Fort Taylor. That is what my Texas history teacher taught us . I've been to the Capitol building in Austin. They have a plaque with the list of dead from that battle. It says they died in Fort Brown. Some history falls through the cracks.
I moved from Massachusetts to south Texas. Well Matamoros, but I'm a truck driver out of Brownsville, Texas. Transcar Express, Boi. I absolutely love it down there. I never wanna leave.
same, though i do miss the mountains and stuff other than just the flatness lol
Welcome to the valley ✨
U moved to the worse place lol
Should of stayed in Massachusetts
@@ericpoulin6985 well as a trucker I get up there quite a bit. I literally just left from Boston 2 days ago heading back to that Sweet sweet valley that in The RGV!
My home town. Haven't been to visit since 2015. It's awesome to see they have added so many historical sites. Thank you for taking the time and including Brownsville in your videos. God bless you all.
You shouldn't return, gunner5050. Nothing to see, but relics, and a bunch of rude, boring people. Albeit the relics, I do respect. I guess Elon with his rockets are.....well sown by the bay, where the watermelons grow.
@gunner5050 stay where you’re at. I currently live here and have been living here all my life. It’s so over populated right now and no jobs.
You would be surprised at all the new construction and new businesses.
@@purpledodecahedron7169 facts. you are absolutely correct 100%!
This is my Dad's hometown, where he was born and raised. I haven't been here in over 30 plus years but when I go, I will know what to go and see
dont go there go to the zoo in los fresnos, the island, get air, alot of cool stuff have been added
@@harrys.3683 Bro did Brownsville hurt u💀??
Baseball was invented in Brownsville! During the war, an officer was standing on the porch of what is today the provost's office on the university's campus, when a grapeshot just whizzed by him. He thought that if he just had a two-by-four, he could have sent it back where it came from... that gave him the idea, and next day (or so) the soldiers of Fort Brown played the first baseball game in American history. True story, and I believe there's a plaque on the provost's office commemorating the beginnings of baseball.
We’ve never heard this story! Wow thanks for sharing
Born and raised here in Brownsville, Texas. We used to live by 234 Dew St not far from the B&M Bridge in a section known back then as "La Muralla" where we would play on "El bordo" and hunt for jackrabbits with our slingshots or birds with our BB guns. Lot of history along the border and Brownsville was right in the center of it. Still living here except for when I joined the military 1975-1982 but it's grown so much since way back when.
You mean D st
@@AC-ul6ge nope D street was the one street and Dew street was right in front of the "Bordo". There was also Bates St as you passed Dew St. Just to make sure that I hadn't gotten it right I googled the address and it's correct 234 Dew St.
Quit hunting the rabbits, dammit!!!
Im from Dew st to
@@purpledodecahedron7169 And quit hunting the birds too. It's hard enough for them to exist in such a desolate place as it is.
I lived in Brownsville for a couple of years in the late 80s as a kid. My grandmother would take me to matamoros every weekend. Great memories. I met Barbara Bush in Brownsville when she was campaigning for her husband, Bush Sr. Also remember there was a Woolworths downtown. If not mistaken it had a diner that I did get to eat at once
Yes. There was a diner in that store. We would get hamburgers and they had all three sizes at the time. (S,M,L)... great times.
@@connievalencia7233 I knew I wasn't imagining that diner in that Woolworths. Thanks. I also remember a restaurant downtown called Lucio's if not mistaken. Do you know of this restaurant by chance.
Que emoción ver está reseña histórica de esta ciudad maravillosa.
He vivido ahí 9 años. Tengo hermosos recuerdos. Amo Brownsville.
He pasado por ahi muchas veces... y no tenia idea!! Es una linda cd.
Learn English or Leave
I personally love the 20 minute drive to SPI.
Born & raised, love you Brownsville 💜
I'm from Monterrey and haven't been to Brownsville in 4 years, but your video makes me want to go right now. As soon as the borders open, first place I'm going! Thanks for posting this video.
It’s not that special lol. Very small and only Mexican/Hispanics down here. No diversity. No large entertainment places or buildings. Very boring
@@nicole-wf4pe I don't need any of that to have fond memories of a place. It'd be extra cool if it were a more diverse place, but I don't need that to love the RGV.
@Miguel Valdez Lopez Texas is a big state. Striving for diversity over every square inch of ground is folly. As a whole we are blessed with diversity, my friend. In 1896 my forebears came to the south central tall grass prairies of the TX Panhandle from a little town west of Wichita Falls. 125 yrs later I'm still up here in one of the two richest agricultural counties in TX. Though I can do without the cities, I find I have something in common wherever I go in my native state.
@@nicole-wf4pe I'll take slow or boring over any major city in the US with a lot of traffic and problems. Most of them are a cesspool.
Brownsville is my home and always will be, crazy how much history has happened and now with SpaceX; will continue making history!🚀🌌
Nice to see you come down here and showcase some of the history we have in the Rio grande valley. 👍🏼🙂
Remember to vote Texas Green Party 2022! 🌵
Thank you. I’m loving living in Texas, and your videos are wonderful 👍🏼👏🏼
...my beautiful city...I wasn't born here, but I was raised here since I was 5...and God willing, I will die and be buried here, under cerulean skies...on the border, by the sea...indeed...
The 1877 steam locomotive is way cool. I think it's wonderful that the college is utilizing/preserving old Fort buildings.
I'm curious if that locomotive was a scale model? It sure seemed small in the video
Born & raised there I can remember when we use to play in that old train it used to sit next the Jacob Brown Auditorium but it did not look like that back then ....
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful city with us all. I love Brownsville and I miss visiting the museum.
Thanks for an episode in the Valley. You could spend much time in this area doing episodes. I’m in Harlingen and will go to Brownsville to do a walk about.
I was born in Brownsville, great memories of my childhood.
Thank you so much for video 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻
God bless everyone!!!
Good friends Were hired to restore store the downtown historical District of Brownsville They offer me a position helping them this was 50 years ago. It's nice to see a video like this Show long ago
I LOVE TRAVELING WITH YOU THOUGH TEXAS,I LEARNED A LOT ABOUT TEXAS I DIDN'T KNOW,THANK YOU FOR HAVING THESE VIDEOS SIR
Lovely old cemetery! So much history here for both US and Mexico. Hard to contain it all in one video!
Saw the name Brownsville in my recommendations and just had to click! To think that I drive by a bunch of these places and have never once thought about their importance!
I lived there for 2 years. It is a beautiful city. I visited to almost all the places you showed.
Nice tour of Brownsville. Thanks for posting
I commend you for your work sir! I appreciate it very much indeed! This is a criminally under subscribed channel!
I've watched two of your videos before now but this is my very first comment on your channel. Thank you very much for documenting the little known facts about Texas history in these towns. 👌👌👌
My hometown left when i was about 23 years old in 1985 and went to college and to live my life only to always wanting to come back home and finally came back home in 2020 it has grown into a big beautiful city i love it here
I'm proud of home town born and Raised there brings back memories hanging around the post office and the Majictic
Thank you for showing and sharing my home town! You showed everything wonderfully, and even to someone who has lived here his whole life, you showed me things I have never seen or heard of! Thank you again.
You should do a tour of the mall and its 5 stores
For those that don’t like Brownsville or think it’s a dump drive North and keep going. God bless you we’ll be fine without you. Adiós
😂😂😂👍
Brown town sucks
😆 I feel the same about ppl who come to the TX Panhandle & bitch about the wind & blowing dust. 🎵"Hit the road Jack, & don'cha come back no mo, no mo..."🎵
I really enjoy your videos.
I'm from Weslaco watching all the way from Carlisle, Pa also truckin
Many Thanks !!
WOW...Brownsville is beautiful...much more than Laredo, to be honest!
Thank you!
Beautiful provincial buildings.
I was born in Brownsville in 1998 and lived there since my childhood but my family moved to Virginia and lived there for 17 years, got so accustomed to vacationing in my hometown with all of my extended family that it became a permanent stay as we moved back to Brownsville this year (2024)
Wow this is an impressively beautifully city! I live in North Texas and didn’t know about the beauty here!
I have a new appreciation for "The Valley " after this video... I will visit some childhood friends there soon.
Thanks for the awesome tour! 👍🇨🇦🌲😎⭐
My beautifully home town.
Loved it, great video.
Born and raise here its grown so much good food good places to see but I'm thinking of moving to Austin
Austin is much more....alive. Brownsville is beautiful. But....not much life to it. Also, the people are arseholes.
Austin is a great City, but it's so expensive and the traffic is a nightmare.
I can't believe all those sites you just showed up in Brownsville!, I've never seen any of those when I'm in Brownsville. Will definitely visit them! Thanks.
This is what the news does not want you seeing. look how beautiful our RGV is. holds so much national history. all you hear about us now is drugs, cartel, immigration. that is not at all what we are about. we have a beautiful and rich culture. thank you so much for this video.
The Baldwin Locomotive works near Eddystone and Ridley PA is now a Walmart. The factory was torn down some years ago. I remember it when I worked at Boeing Helicopters in the '90s. It is neat to see a Baldwin locomotive in the museum in Brownsville. Just another thing to add to my bucket list.
Thank you enjoyed so much 😊
So much history here - we had no idea!
The headstones have taken me back a bit - they are in the same style as the British ones of the same era.
Looks like the British might of had quite an influence in this department too?
@12:23 that is a colourful sight. Amazing cemetery. Hope someone has mapped out where everyone has been laid to rest. Great historical value there i believe. When i worked on our family history i actually mapped out and recorded the details of every headstone in every cemetary i visited.
Yes it was a major undertaking over many years! but iinvaluable to me. 👍
👊 🇬🇧
I grew up north of Mission Tx another awesome town I moved to Brownsville 12 years ago got a house in Boca chica love that Brownsville is separate from the rest of the valley
Viva la Texas, viva la Mexico!
my home town
Amazing Vid! Didn't know Brownsville had so much history! Thanks! for talking us along.
Downtown brownsville. Where i live currently
Raised in Brownsville next time I visit. I will visit some of this sites that we take for granted. Thank you 🍻
My home town when in was like. 10 years old me and my freind when playing in. His back yard. And. Found and an old iron. For ironing clothing back in the days. .. That they heat 🔥up in coals .We both took it to that museum. They. Took are info and left. The building. Jajajajajaja wonder if they have it still😁
Excellent video of my hometown!
Thank You for posting this!
Keep up the great work! 👍
Excellent video
Great short tour of the city. Was surprised at all the historical markers hope to visit one day
Wow my town getting some rep. Thanks y’all fr. 956
Been on everyone of those streets and sidewalks, except the cemetary. Well done video!
On my bucket list to visit. Thanks for the video
I see it every day an go bike ride in at 12:00 am every night an its a good town born an raised
King and Kennedy ranch along with McAllen where originally stolen through either marriage or execution (hangings) and Mexican Americans that helped Texas become Texas,like Seguin and De Zavala. Helped American settlers... yet where themselves branded at Mexican spies and it isn't until recently that they get the respect and recognition they deserve. So calling king and Kennedy entrepreneurs is a bit of selling point. A Lipan Apache"
Thank you so much for all your videos. Keep up the great work
Born and raised here, the entire video I was thinking "Hey I've been there"
I love my hometown of, Brownsville and while we do have all these historical sites, we also have Space X, and will be one of only a few cities to have air taxi service in a few years.
It looks much nicer than expected, nicer than most other Rio Grande Valley cities.
Thank you so much for the video. I would like to go and visit yo see Brownsville and Cameron County!!?
On the Texas border . Beautiful . A border crossing on the tip of Texas . Pray 🙏
How about another Brownsville segment highlighting their shiny new airport terminal building (and the historic Pan Am terminal building) and the SpaceX complex investment out Boca Chica way?
Yes!
Love Brownsville great city
Lived in Brownsville for a shortwhile relocating my Mother. We enjoyed the Zoo daily and resacas waterfront places to eat. Space X should be part of the New Brownsville.
It’s funny how people talk about Brownsville in the past tense in the comment section. I was born and raised in Brownsville Texas. And I’m still here.
Nice tour. Too bad no one is taking care of the Longoria cemetery. What a shame.
Great video! I can’t believe I don’t have a Republic of the Rio Grande t-shirt! 🙂
Home.
Love my pretty hometown puro 956 cuh
Amazing !
❤️🙏🏽
Though I live in Brooklyn, sometimes I think about moving to Brownsville or Laredo!
30miles North of. Brownsville, the last battle of the civil war was fought, one month after the war ,was over.rebels killed 15 Yanks, that came to tell them, war was over
Battle of Palmito Ranch.
👉🌞Notheing like South Texas ☀️ sunshine. Nothing wrong with it, either
The land that my father 👨 loved.
Woooo I live in Brownsville
You should do one of Sal del Rey
👍👍👍
I heard they're restoring the old El Jardin Hotel. :)
I don't think so I went by there like 2 weeks ago we use to rent there in the 1977 when my dad use to work in Houston when we came back we stay there I been living here since 1980
Wow people actually know we exist lol everytime I say I'm from South Texas people think Texas stops at San Antonio
You failed to show the cannon placed at the site of the earthwork fort, where 8% of the walls still stand, barely noticeable little hills.
That's because there were overgrown weeds everywhere there
@@secretsoftexas6872 the unlimited wisdom of the local government to let nature retake this historic and hallowed piece of blood soaked land, where good soldiers of both America and Mexico gave their lives for their countries, A disgraceful spit in the face to the militaries of both Mexico and America.
Born and raised here. I love the gentrification that is currently happening
Mmmm gentrification... tasty...
oh yes may the restoration continue
Make more videos of Brownsville
You can hear the green parrots 🦜 in some parts of your video
My piano/cello building came out in this video bruh
The original cite was called Fort Texas. It was renamed after Major Jacob Brown was killed in combat defending the star shapped fort.
I thought the fort only had a number assigned to it originally.
@@NorceCodine Don't know about a number. I do know that after Gen. Zachary Taylor arrived to take command, he renamed it Fort Taylor. That is what my Texas history teacher taught us . I've been to the Capitol building in Austin. They have a plaque with the list of dead from that battle. It says they died in Fort Brown. Some history falls through the cracks.
Brownsville on top
I wish they still had signs banning camels in Brownsville
🙏❤
👻my hometown
Thanks for the film. BUT how'd you manage to film with almost no cars? I live close by and every time we visit it's traffic jams....
too bad they demolished the real old buildings...I bet the city regrets it now
When did that happen?
Looks better than Detroit