Gladys Porter Zoo is a zoological and botanical park located in Brownsville, Texas. The zoo officially opened on September 3, 1971, and currently averages 375,000 visitors annually.
The Historic Brownsville Museum is located in the old Southern Pacific Depot building constructed 1928. A magnificent example of Spanish colonial revival architecture, the building is a Texas Historical Marker and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sunrise Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Brownsville, Texas, United States. It was opened in 1979, only five years after the town's other mall, Amigoland Mall.
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park near Brownsville, Texas is a National Park Service unit which preserves the grounds of the May 8, 1846, Battle of Palo Alto. It was the first major conflict in a border dispute that soon precipitated the Mexican–American War.
Fighting in the brush of Resaca de la Palma Fighting in the brush of Resaca de la Palma The site called Resaca de la Palma (known as Resaca de Guerrero in Mexico) is a dry river channel, one of many long, water-filled ravines left behind by the shifting course of the Rio Grande. The trace was lined with dense brush and its bed dotted with pools of water natural features that promised to limit any attack against troops positioned there.
More than 1,000 acres with beaches & dunes for swimming, fishing, surfing, bird-watching & picnics.