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This is the beginning of a new collection at this website that will record information about Robertson County's Italian immigrants.  In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a number of immigrants from various places in Italy (including a large contingent from Sicily) settled in the Brazos River bottomlands outside of Hearne near the Mumford community.  The rich dark soil and abundance of fresh river water created an ideal environment for raising cotton and other crops.  Plantations of all shapes and sizes were prevalent throughout the Brazos River bottom.  Although many families that originally settled this area have now moved out of the river bottom and into town, their rich cultural heritage remains.

It is hoped that a volunteer who is either related to some of these early immigrants or who has close ties to many of these settler families will volunteer to adopt this page and place information about Robertson County's Italian immigrants online.  Anyone with information about these families, including dates & places of immigration, family bible records, books & articles, immigration & naturalization records, family trees & GEDCOM files, etc., is encouraged to contribute whatever they wish.  Churches, civic & fraternal leaders & groups, historians, family griots, & public-spirited individuals are all urged to volunteer to help preserve online the important contributions made by this special immigrant population.