Brownwood: Brown County Museum of History

Brownwood: Brown County Museum of History

  • <p>Brown County Museum of History</p> <p>Tall stone building with square tower</p>
  • <p>Constructing barracks at Camp Bowie for German POWs</p> <p>People working on wooden platform tent frames</p>
  • <p>Military police on motorcycles at Camp Bowie </p> <p>Men in uniform with motorcycles standing in V formation in front of building named Headquarters Camp Bowie</p>
  • <p>German POW musicians at Camp Bowie</p> <p>Group of musicians with instruments</p>
  • <p>German POWs painted this mural under the direction of Dick Hepburn </p> <p>Interior wall mural of soldiers and a tank</p>

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In theearly 1900s, cotton was king, and Brownwood was the major cotton-buying centerwest of Fort Worth. The economy burgeoned in the 1920s during an oil boom andagain during World War II with the construction of Camp Bowie, a vast militarytraining installation. The Brown County Museum of History interprets these andother aspects of local history in a fortress-like Romanesque Revival jail builtin 1902.

Brown County HistoricalMuseum

  • Hours: Thursday –Friday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
  • Admission: $3
  • 209 N. Broadway,Brownwood, TX
  • 325-641-1926
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