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| 1850 | ||
| Brazos Co | 1850 Census reports Brazos Co population is 614. | |
| Jan 29 | Boonville | C.C. Seale appointed postmaster at Boonville. |
| Jul 9 | Washington D.C. | President Zachary Taylor dies. He got sick after eating cherries and milk at a July 4 celebration. Vice-President Millard Fillmore is sworn in as the 13th President of the United States. |
| Dec 23 | Boonville | Robert Johnson appointed postmaster at Boonville. |
| 1851 | ||
| Jan 27 | Boonville | Harvey Mitchell appointed postmaster at Boonville. |
| 1852 | ||
| Nov 2 | National | Election Day Franklin Pierce elected 14th President of the United States. Texas votes for (D)Pierce. |
| 1853 | ||
| 1854 | ||
| Jul 13 | Boonville | Wm. McIntosh appointed postmaster at Boonville. |
| 1855 | ||
| Mar 17 | Brazos Co | The Texas State Gazette reports that mail is delivered twice a week in four horse coaches from Washington, by Millican, Boonville, and Wheelock. |
| 1856 | ||
| Sep 25 | Irishtown | Harvey Mitchell appointed postmaster at Irishtown. |
| Nov 4 | National | Election Day James Buchanan elected 15th President of the United States. Texas votes for (D)Buchanan. |
| 1857 | ||
| Oct 21 | Irishtown | Irishtown post office discontinued. |
| Oct 23 | Millican | Martin Waldorff appointed postmaster at Millican. |
| 1858 | ||
| 1859 | ||
| Nov 1 | Millican | Benjamin H. Peverly appointed postmaster at Millican. |
| 1860 | ||
| Brazos Co | 1860 Census reports Brazos Co population is 2776. | |
| Nov 6 | National | Election Day Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States. Texas votes for (SD)Breckenridge. |
| 1861 | ||
| Jan 28 | Austin | A convention for Secession meets in Austin. |
| Feb 1 | Austin | Delegates to the Secession Convention approve the ordinance of secession by a vote of 166 to 8. |
| Feb 23 | Election Day | Texans ratify the ordinance of secession by a vote of 44,317 to 13,020. |
| Mar 5 | Austin | The Secession Convention reassembles, declares Texas independent and takes steps to join it to the Confederacy. All current officeholders are required to swear a loyalty oath to the Confederacy. Gov. Sam Houston refuses and the convention declares the governorship vacant and instructs Lt. Gov Edward Clark to assume the office of governor. |
| Jul 12 | Boonville | Wm. McIntosh appointed postmaster at Boonville. (Confederate post office) |
| Jul 12 | Millican | S.C. Brasher appointed postmaster at Millican. (Confederate post office) |
| Nov 6 | National | Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederate States. |
| 1862 | ||
| Jul 2 | Washington D.C. | Approval by President Abraham Lincoln of the Morrill Land-Grant Act, donating public lands to the several states for collegs to benefit agriculture and the mechanic arts. |
| 1863 | ||
| 1864 | ||
| Nov 17 | Boonville | W.C. Bulkey appointed postmaster at Boonville. (Confederate post office) |
| 1865 | ||
| Mar 17 | Millican | L.F. Fletcher appointed postmaster at Millican. (Confederate post office) |
| June | Millican | Federal troops arrive. |
| Oct 18 | Millican | Mrs. Louisa Loftin appointed postmaster at Millican. |
| Oct 30 | Boonville | Benjamin Hubert appointed postmaster at Boonville. |
| Nov 27 | Millican | The Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph reports, "We learn that Mrs. L. Loftin has been appointed Post Master at Millican. We are glad to hear it, & hope every office in the State will be filled by ladies. They are fully competent." |
| Dec | Bryan | W.W. Davis opens a Freedmen's school. |
| 1866 | ||
| Jan 23 | Boonville | Harry W. Jones appointed postmaster at Boonville. |
| Feb | Freedmen's schools open in Boonville and Millican | |
| Mar 23 | Boonville | Cemantha J. Thompson appointed postmaster at Boonville. |
| Apr 16 | Millican | Richard P. Samuel appointed postmaster at Millican. |
| Jul 25 | Boonville | Taylor Bean appointed postmaster at Boonville. |
| Nov 1 | Austin | The Texas Legislature accepts the provisions of the Morrill Act. |
| Nov 30 | Bryan | Post Office site report: Located 8 miles east of Brazos River & 3 miles east of Thompson's Creek; about 800 inhabitants lived in this village; signed Mercer Phelan. |
| Dec 19 | Boonville | The post office moved from Boonville to Bryan at 27th and Tabor. |
| Bryan | Mercer Phelan appointed postmaster at Bryan. | |
| 1867 | ||
| Bryan | H&TC reached Bryan and the first telegraph line installed. | |
| Bryan | First general merchandise store opened by Hill and Moseley at corner of 26th and Tabor. | |
| Millican | William Lambdin started the Millican News Letter Newspaper. By the end of the year Lambdin moves the paper to Bryan and renames it The Bryan News Letter. | |
| Mar 19 | Millican | Thomas H. Waldron appointed postmaster at Millican. |
| May | Millican | The Freedmen Methodist Episcopal Church purchase land. |
| Sep 14 | Millican | The postmaster at Millican, after closing the post-office, addresses the following letter to the Telegraph: P.O. Millican, Texas, Sept. 9th, 1867. P.M. Houston, Texas: Sir: Yellow fever is in our midst--4 deaths have already occurred and several more cases exist. The citizens are badly frightened, all who can, have left; `twill be useless to send mail matter to this place from this date, as no one will be here to receive it. I have my goods packed & am ready to leave, will send you notice upon my return. I am, very respectfully, Chas. W. Gardiner, Acting P.M.; P.S.--Please inform citizens. |
| Oct 2 | Bryan | The Galveston Daily News recieved from Bryan City....Please mail our paper to this place. The P.O. at Millican is now discontinued. The postmaster has fled to the woods, & the telegraph operator is dead. |
| Nov 8 | Bryan | James M. Speaker appointed postmaster at Bryan. |
| Dec 3 | Bryan | Charles W. Gardiner appointed postmaster at Bryan. |
| 1868 | ||
| Feb | Brazos Co | Stephen Curtis, an African American, elected as a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention |
| Apr 27 | Millican | Robert I. Shelton appointed postmaster at Millican. |
| May 25 | Bryan | Post Office site report: Local name "Bryan City"; 8 miles east of Brazos River & 14 miles west of Navasota "Creek"; signed C.W. Gardiner. |
| July | Millican | The Millican riot takes place. |
| Oct 3 | Wellborn's Station | Post Office site location report: located 2 miles east of Brazos River; 30 families lived with 2 miles of post office; proposed Mrs. M.A.E. Boyd as p.m.; signed by L.F. Fletcher. |
| Oct 14 | Wellborn's Station | Mrs. E.A. Boyd appointed postmaster at Wellborn's Station. |
| Nov 3 | National | Election Day Ulysses Grant elected 18th President of the United States. Texas is not allowed to vote due to continued reconstruction. |
| 1869 | ||
| Brazos Co | Chatham Gin Factory locates 1.5 miles north of Bryan. | |
| Mar | Galveston | The Galveston Daily News, in March 1869, said, "The Bryan News Letter ... is doing well, and it is certainly deserving of a liberal patronage. Mr. Lambdin, the popular proprietor, is a gentleman who reflects credit on the profession. ..." |
| Bryan | William Lambdin sold the Bryan News Letter to "radical Republican" Dr. W.H. Farmer. Farmer proved to be unpopular and a poor businessman and within four months he had gone broke. He sold the Bryan News Letter back to Lambdin for $2,100 less than he had paid for it. Lambdin then began publishing the Bryan Appeal in place of the News Letter. | |
| Apr 5 | Bryan | Robert Mills appointed postmaster at Bryan. |
| May 5 | Houston | The Houston Daily Times reports: The postmaster at Bryan has been removed and one Robt. C. Mills appointed. Mills is on his way out from New York, but has not yet arrived. Of course he is simply a radical spy, ordered here by Reynolds, "Hamilton's friend." |
| 1870 | ||
| Brazos Co | 1870 Census reports Brazos Co population is 9205. | |
| Bryan | First oil mill started and operated until 1885. | |
| May 2 | Wellborn's Station | Wellborn's Station Post office discontinued. |
| Sept | Bryan | Shiloh Baptist Church purchases land. |
| Dec | Bryan | Conference of African American Methodist Episcopal Church meets. |
| 1871 | ||
| Jan 17 | Bryan | Henry A. Moore appointed postmaster at Bryan. |
| Feb 1 | Austin | The Daily State Journal reports: The Washington (D.C.) Chronicle informs us that H.A. Moore, one of the proprietors of the Brazos Eagle, has been appointed postmaster for Bryan, Texas. Those who are in a position to know, say that this is a good appointment, and one that will give general satisfaction to the people of Brazos Co. |
| Feb 9 | Wellborn | Jesse M. Neeley appointed postmaster at Wellborn. |
| Mar 7 | Wellborn | Post office site location report: 3 miles east of Brazos River & ½ mile east of Peach Creek; signed Jesse M. Neeley. |
| Mar 13 | Austin | Legislation provided for the incorporation of The Town of Millican. "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, as follows: Article 1. That all that part of the county of Brazos, to-wit: Having for a centre point the store house of R. J. Shelton, and ex- tending from there north, one mile; south, one mile; west, one mile; east, one mile; shall constitute the town of Millican." |
| Apr 17 | Austin | Establishment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas by act of the Texas Legislature. Appropriations of $75,000 for buildings. |
| Jun 20 | Brazos Co | Site for A&M picked near Bryan after Harvey Mitchell met with state locating committee in Houston and pledged 2,250 acres of land, with clear titles, within 48 hours. |
| Jun 26 | Millican | Benjamin F. Boldridge appointed postmaster at Millican. |
| Nov 29 | Austin | Legislature provided for "An Act to re-organize the town of Bryan, in Brazos county, Texas, and incorporate said town as the City of Bryan." Courthouse completed. "The corporation now existing and known as the Town of Bryan, in Brazos county, Texas, shall continue to be a body corporate in fact by the name and style of the City of Bryan. |
| Dec 1 | Austin | Legislature provides an act to incorporate the Odd Fellows' Hall Association of Bryan, Texas. |
| Bryan | Bryan Male and Female Seminary founded under charter from the State. | |
| Brazos Co | Construction begins on the first building for the new Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas. | |
| 1872 | ||
| Bryan | Texas Odd Fellows University and Orphans Home opened and operated for three years. | |
| Sep 18 | Millican | Albert G. Prewitt appointed postmaster at Millican. |
| Nov 5 | National | Election Day Ulysses Grant is re-elected President of the United States. Texas votes for (D)Greeley. |
| 1873 | ||
| Bryan | Money lending office established by Guy M. Bryan,Jr. | |
| Jul 25 | Millican | Nicholas R. Goin appointed postmaster at Millican. |
| 1874 | ||
| Feb 18 | Curds Prairie | Post office site location report: 7 miles southwest of Navasota River & 3 miles north of Mathew's Branch; signed Henry D. Lawless. |
| March | Bryan | The city sells the "Freedmen Burying Ground" to local churches. |
| Apr 2 | Austin | $40,000 appropriated for the construction of a "Main" building for the A&M College. |
| May 25 | Millican | William H. McMichael appointed postmaster at Millican. |
| Jul 2 | Macy | Post office site location report: population of village 100; post office would service 1,000 people; located 2 ½ miles west of Navasota River & 7 miles east of Cedar Creek; signed S.J. Lipscomb. |
| Jul 13 | Macy | Samuel J. Lipscomb appointed postmaster at Macy. |
| Dec 7 | Benchley | Dan J. Lewis appointed postmaster. |