BRENHAM, a city in S.E. Texas, U.S.A., 68m. N.W. of Houston ; the county seat of Washington county. It is served by the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific railways. The population in 192o was _ 5,o66 ; and it was 5,974 in 193o. It is a shipping point for cotton, grain, poultry, dressed turkeys, and livestock. Its factories include a cotton mill, a cotton compress, a cotton seed oil mill, a broom factory, marble and granite works, and a large hatchery. It was settled about 1844, incorporated in 1866, and chartered as a city in 1873. A commission-manager form of government was adopted in 1920.