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What happened to Brownwood in Baytown? HGSD says subsidence sank the neighborhood before FEMA buyouts

What happened to Brownwood in Baytown? HGSD says subsidence sank the neighborhood before FEMA buyouts
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There’s more to the Baytown Nature Center than what meets the eye. You can find evidence of the neighborhood that once existed there under the surface of the water that now dominates the landscape. From the 1930s to the 1980s the Brownwood subdivision was home to more than 400 families. It was an...

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