4/24/11: Post, Gail, Snyder, Colorado City, Robert Lee, Ballinger, Coleman, Brownwood, Goldthwaite, Lampasas

Post courthouse, 1923.  

Architect: C. A. Carlander

Post was built by cereal magnate, C.W. Post, and his idea was a town where nobody had any debt!  It's a lovely little town with a neat depot.

Old Post jail.

Gail courthouse, 1936.

Architect: David S. Castle

 Founded by Gail Borden, of Borden milk!  Yep, no joke, Post and Borden in neighboring counties!   Gail is a tiny town, but there's a hitching post at the courthouse! 

Gail jail.  

Snyder courthouse, 1950.  

Architect: Lang & Witchell

Snyder boasts its exceedingly high number of bison that were killed in the county and has a monument to one of 2 White Buffalo that were killed in the county.

Colorado City courthouse, 1936.  

Architect: David S. Castle

Colorado City jail, still in use.

Robert Lee courthouse, 1956.

Architect: Wyatt C. Hedrick & Harry Weaver

Ballinger courthouse, 1936. 

Architect: Eugene T. Heiner

This is a great town, we plan to return to spend some real time here.  We didn't find the Carnegie Library, but we did see the huge cross on the hill!  

Ballinger jail, now storage.

Coleman courthouse, 1952.  

Architect: Wyatt C. Hedrick

Coleman has a lovely downtown, but was pretty quiet on a Sunday afternoon.

Coleman jail, 1890, perhaps the oldest jail still in use!  There's a dog run and a high-fenced basketball court that you can kind of see behind the red fence. 

Brownwood jail, 1902.  Now a museum.

Brownwood courthouse, 1917.

Architect: Henry T. Phelps

Goldthwaite courthouse, 1913.

Architect: Henry T. Phelps

This courthouse has since been finished! 

Nice town, we had lunch at the Subway while passing through once, because there wasn't anything else open on the weekend that accepted credit cards.

Goldthwaite jail, 1888, now county offices.

Lampasas courthouse corner stone.  Usually the corner stone is on the NW corner of the building, but this one was incorporated into the design above the doors! 

Lampasas courthouse, 1883.  

Architect: W. C. Dodson

One of our favorites!  And one of the oldest still in use!  Lampasas is a lovely town with a beautiful old depot that we will return to and spend more time there.