City of Boonville, Texas

Location in the State of Texas
County	Brazos County Brazos County, Texas Brazos County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas in the Central Texas region. In 2010, its population was 194,851. The county seat is Bryan and it is part of the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area. Brazos is named for the Brazos River, along with Brazoria...
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Boonville, Texas was the first county seat of Brazos County. When the Houston and Texas Central Railway was extended from Millican

Millican, Texas

Millican is a town in Brazos County, Texas, United States. The population was 108 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bryan–College Station metropolitan area...

 to Bryan

Bryan, Texas

Bryan is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 76,201. It is the county seat of Brazos County and is located in the heart of the Brazos Valley . It shares its border with the city of College Station, which lies to its south...

 in 1866, Bryan was made the county seat. Today, all that remains of Boonville is the cemetery on Boonville Road

Farm to Market Road 158

Farm to Market Road 158, or FM 158, is a Farm to Market Road in Texas, running from FM 1687 and SH 21 eastward to SH 30 in Bryan. It is also known as William J Bryan Parkway west of SH 6 and Boonville Rd east of SH 6.-Junction List:...

 marked by a Texas Centennial monument. The former town site is now located in Bryan, Texas

Bryan, Texas

Bryan is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 76,201. It is the county seat of Brazos County and is located in the heart of the Brazos Valley . It shares its border with the city of College Station, which lies to its south...

 near State Highway 6

State Highway 6 (Texas)

State Highway 6 runs from the Red River, the Texas–Oklahoma boundary, to northwest of Galveston. In the Houston area, it runs north to FM 1960, then northwest along US Highway 290 to Hempstead, and south to Westheimer Road and Addicks, and is known as Addicks Satsuma Road. In the...

. The city was named in honor of Mordecai Boon, Sr., nephew of Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits mad']'e him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of...

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