Courthouses of Brown County
Inscription
Brown County, created in 1856 and organized two years later, has had four courthouses. Pioneer settler Welcome William Chandler donated land for the first courthouse, a log cabin. The county moved the building twice, first two miles to the Billy Connell Farm, then to this site after Greenleaf Fisk's donation of land for a new townsite resolved an 1868 dispute.
Commissioners also added a second story to the structure. A combination courthouse and jail built in 1876 served only four years before it burned. Waco architectural firm Dodson & Dudley designed a new building in 1884. The current Classical Revival courthouse, built in 1917-18, incorporated interior walls and vaults from the prior structure.
(2007)
Location
Sources
More markers in Brown
Bangs Public Schools
Bangs, TX
The town of Bangs was established on the route of the Santa Fe Railroad, which deeded land to the city for a school.
City of Brownwood
Brownwood, TX
(first site 1 mile E; second, 5 miles SE, present location) Settled 1857.
Howard Payne University
Brownwood, TX
The Pecan Valley Baptist Association was formed by representatives of Baptist congregations in this area in September 1876.
John Wesley Malone Home
Brownwood, TX
Pioneer ranchers Modie J. and Samuel R. Coggin began this house after 1874.
The May Community
May, TX
Originally part of a Mexican land grant given to empresario John Cameron in 1827, May developed in the 1870s when several pioneer...