Browntown was in the extreme Southeastern section of 
the county, near the Warren County line. It was named 
for a BROWN family who had considerable land holdings 
there before the Civil War. After the war, the former 
family slaves continued to live in the area and called 
their community Browntown. The place latter became known 
as Crisp, after a man who gave them land for a Church. 
Before desegregation and consolidation of schools, one 
of the counties three schools for blacks was located 
there. Today, it only has the Church.