The Brown County Jail is located at 1050 West Commerce in Brownwood, Texas 76801. The phone number at Brown County Jail is (325) 641-2481. The inmate capacity is 196. Brown County Sheriff’s duties include running the jail.

Construction of the current Brown County Jail was completed on June 29, 1981, and preservation of the historic Old Brown County Jail immediately began. The old jail is the current site of the Brown County Museum of History.

About Old Brown County Jail

The old Brown County Jail looks like a four-story castle. It took 18 months for the historic building to be built, and its completion was June 29, 1903. The structure served as the jail for the county for exactly 78 years. This was not the first jail in the county. The original Brown County Jail was built at the corner of Water Street and North Fisk Street in 1876.

The old jail is built with native sandstone, cement, steel, and sand. No lumber was used upstairs, which was designed to prevent inmates from trying to start a fire. The walls of the jail are made of stone, cement, and sand; and they are 18 inches thick. The thick walls keep the building much cooler, in addition to providing structural support. Because there were no motor vehicles during the time when the structure was built, horses and mules hauled all of the materials and equipment for the construction. Some heavy wagons were pulled by 8 or 10-mule teams.

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