Bronte, Texas Bronte, Texas Bronte ( ) is a town in Coke County, Texas, United States. The population was 999 at the 2010 census. Texas State Senator Grady Hazlewood, who served from the Amarillo-based District 31 from 1941-1971, was born in 1902 in Coke County near Bronte. Bronte is located at (31.887046, -100.294947). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. Although named for English novelist Charlotte Brontë the town name is pronounced as one syllable: "brahnt". As of the census of 2000, 1,076 people, 426 households, and 293 families resided
Bronte House the Bank of Australasia, J. J. Falconer, who in 1861 once again put the property up for auction. The buyer was J. B. Holdsworth, a hardware and ironmonger magnate, who paid A₤4,750 for the house. Before he died, Holdsworth added the second storey to the wing on Bronte Road. Holdsworth's son sold the house and to Stanley Ebsworth in 1882 and a period of rapid change of ownership ended. A subdivision created a through road (Bronte Road) south of the house to the beach on part of the former carriage drive. This entailed demolition of one of the corner turrets