"Courthouse 100th Anniversary!"

Brackettville, Texas 78832.


Photo caption under a century - old B/W from the Brackett News Weekly, edition of Thursday, March 17, 2011, says it all:

"Pictured is the courthouse as it was in 1911."

Including the adjacent windmill!

"Judge Joe Veltmann and Precinct 1 Commissioner N. Castro, Precinct 2 Commissioner Albert Schwander, Precinct 3 Commissioner R.E. Cannon and Precinct 4 Commissioner J.F. McCormick certified the courthouse complete on March 22, 1911..."

NOTE: Saint Mary Magdalene's Catholic Church parishioner and current Kinney County Auditor Mr. Gilbert Castro's great uncle -- a county commissioner -- "voted in favor of building the new courthouse in 1908."

Raw data in photo caption from the Brackett News Weekly. Edition of Thursday, March 24, 2011.