Brownwood: Brown County Museum of History

Tall stone building with square tower

Brown County Museum of History

People working on wooden platform tent frames

Constructing barracks at Camp Bowie for German POWs

Men in uniform with motorcycles standing in V formation in front of building named Headquarters Camp Bowie

Military police on motorcycles at Camp Bowie

Group of musicians with instruments

German POW musicians at Camp Bowie

Interior wall mural of soldiers and a tank

German POWs painted this mural under the direction of Dick Hepburn

In the early 1900s, cotton was king, and Brownwood was the major cotton-buying center west of Fort Worth. The economy burgeoned in the 1920s during an oil boom and again during World War II with the construction of Camp Bowie, a vast military training installation. The Brown County Museum of History interprets these and other aspects of local history in a fortress-like Romanesque Revival jail built in 1902.

Brown County Historical Museum

  • 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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