The Brown family, headed by David H. Brown originally of Virginia, was a founding family of Eastpoint, Florida, a small town on the western edge of the Apalachee Bay. David Brown, his wife Elizabeth Wood Brown, and their three-month-old son, Herbert, migrated to Nebraska from Virginia in 1884. In 1896, they moved back east to Muscogee County, Georgia, with several families organized as the Christian Commonwealth, a group dedicated to forming a community where the work and rewards would be shared by all. Two years later, Brown and five other families left Georgia and traveled down the Chattahoochee River to Apalachicola, Florida. They settled across the Apalachicola Bay on the strip of land called Eastpoint.

The settlers established a group called the Co-Workers' Fraternity which was concerned with spiritual, philosophical, and religious study, as well as a separate but related industrial colony focusing on economic production. Although individuals owned their land, the profits were shared among colony members. They engaged in farming, the seafood industry, and the lumber business. Rebecca Wood Brown served as Eastpoint postmistress from 1898 to 1938, with the post office located in the Brown home. Her children, Herbert and Elizabeth, took over the postmaster duties in 1938. Descendents of David and Rebecca Wood Brown remain in Eastpoint.
(From: Florida Memory Project)

(From the Apalachicola Times)
In 1983 as a tribute to "Egg" Brown, as he was called, and to honor the Brown family, the Eastpoint Lions Club requested a name change of Eastpoint Elementary. The Franklin County School Board unanimously voted to rename the school in honor of this early Eastpoint settler who was turning 100 years old on Christmas Day of that year. The school is now named the Herbert G. Brown Elementary School. In addition to his postmaster duties, he had also been a farmer, school board member, water and soil conservation district member, prison mail clerk, school teacher, and egg peddler.