W.A. Brown Realtors: a general agency offering professional real estate service on farms, ranches, residential and commercial land, including appraisals. The company was established in January 1960 by William Arland Brown, a 1943 graduate of Grapeland High School. Brown also attended Texas A & M College (Now Texas A & M University), before and after a tour of military service, worked for a few years as a sales representative in the oilfield service business then returned to settle down in Grapeland in 1954. 

Brown operated Brown Equipment Co., dealing in farm equipment and sprinkler irrigation equipment and service, for about ten years starting in 1854. Full time operation of this business was discontinued after heavy fire damage in 1964. The real estate business was continued and is still in operation today.

W. Arland Brown is a graduate of the SOARS Program (Studies of Advanced Real Estate Subjects) at Texas A & M, and recognized as an Accredited Land Consultant by the Realtors Land Institute. He is a charter member and two past president of the Houston County Board of Realtors, and is an active member of the Texas Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors. 

Sons Gregory A. Brown and Jeffrey C. Brown joined the firm as brokers associates about 1980 after they both graduated from Texas A & M. Jeffrey has since gone into full time real estate appraisal work with another company, and Gregory is still a full time broker associate with W.A. Brown Realtors. 

The company moved in mid 1979 into their present office building located on U.S. Highway 287 at the intersection of FM 227 East (Augusta Road) in Grapeland.