re: Aggies, Bryan College Station??

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A&M was established 6 miles outside of Bryan, Texas. There was a train station stop at the university that was called College Station. As the town grew around the university, they adopted the name College Station.

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This.

Originally there was just a lonely campus out there. It is hard to believe that pre WWII there were only 2K in the town of college station.

Clemson has a similar history where the school was there first and the town existed later.