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INDIAN CREEK, TEXAS (Brown County). Indian Creek, on Farm Road 586 in southern Brown County, was named for a local watercourse. In 1876 a post office was established in Francis Harris's general store, and that same year a school was built in Tom McAden's pasture. The community had two stores, a cotton gin, and a blacksmith shop in 1879. Indian Creek remained a small community. The writer Katherine Anne Porter^qv was born there on May 15, 1890, and drew upon memories of Central Texas life in much of her writing. In 1945 Indian Creek had two businesses, a school, and sixty residents. Its school was consolidated with the Brookesmith schools in 1948-49. The community's population in 1988 was twenty-eight.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Joan Givner, Katherine Anne Porter: A Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982). Thomas Robert Havins, Something about Brown: A History of Brown County, Texas (Brownwood, Texas: Banner Printing, 1958).

William R. Hunt

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