The Founding of Brownsville
Around the same time as the Fort coming to the area Charles Stillman founded Brownsville, Texas, on January 13, 1849. The land which was less than a mile from the Fort was also disputed. Stillman had bought large pieces of land north and northeast of Matamoros from the heirs of José Narciso Cavazos. Stillman offered the Cavazos family $33,000 for their land even though it was worth $214,000. The Cavazos family accepted the offer to avoid paying legal fees. However, Stillman never paid the Cavazos family the $33,000 for the land (Takaki, 1993). Since the land belonged to the heirs of his second marriage. This was one of the reasons the Cortina Wars happened.
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