Brooksville, the seat of Bracken county, began as the settlement Woodward's Crossroads in the late 1700s. The county seat was moved from nearby Augusta in 1839 and the town was renamed Brooksville for David Brooks, the legislator who introduced the bill that made the change. A Brookville Court House post office opened in 1842, changing to Brooksville after 1900. The population in 1990 was 670.