Old Brulay Plantation

	Old Brulay Plantation
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Old Brulay Plantation Old Brulay Plantation
Nearest city	Brownsville, Texas
Coordinates	25°51′15″N 97°24′0″W / 25.85417°N 97.40000°W
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1870
Built by	George N. Brulay
NRHP reference No.	75001961
Added to NRHP	October 10, 1975

The Old Brulay Plantation was a Southern plantation with a historic mansion founded in c. 1870 and located in Brownsville, Texas. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since October 10, 1975.^[2]

History

The Old Brulay Plantation was established circa 1870, by George Paul Brulay (1839–1905).^[3]^[4] George Paul Brulay had immigrated from France to Matamoros, Mexico and then to Brownsville, Texas.^[3] He bought up 400 acres of land located near the Rio Grande, most of which at the time was full of brush plants.^[4]

It was initially experimented with different crops on the land; first it was a cotton plantation, followed by a sugar plantation.^[4]^[3] Brulay had built a sugar mill on the property circa 1876.^[4]^[3] Because this plantation was established after the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the plantation did not own black slaves.^[3]

When tariffs on Cuban sugar were removed c. 1910, the plantation closed down.^[3]

Brulay's sons worked the farm until it was sold in 1924.^[4] It was acquired by immigrants from Japan prior to World War I.^[3] The plantation was purchased by the Nye family in 1931.^[3] By 2016, it still belonged to the same family.^[3]