Brownwood
Brown County, Texas
31 43.369' N 98 58.803' W

Text: 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 and Dudley, designed a new building in 1884. The current classical revival courthouse, build in 1917-1918, incorporated interior walls and vaults from the prior structure.