SPECIAL WANTS OF THE COMMUNITY

Brownwood, Early, and surrounding areas are known as communities that help one another. Every now and then special groups and individuals need to reach out to the community for assistance, volunteers, financial aide, and general help. Information about these needs are listed below. Feel free to contact the listed individuals for more information.

Please email the WEBMASTER (webmaster@brownwoodtx.com) if you would like to post your special needs on this website.

Brown County Museum of History - Fisk House

A fund to accept donations for the purchase and restoration of the historic Greenleaf Fisk home has been opened at Mills County State Bank. Make donations to the Brown County Museum of History - Fisk House. Donations are tax deductible. Preliminary plans envision using the home as a tourist attraction and visitors center.

R.F. Harding High School

A fund has been set up to restore the old R.F.Harding High School, formerly the school for black students in Brown County, to create a black history museum. Anyone able to contribute may send a check or money order to the R.F. Hardin Museum, Inc., P.O. BOX 1968, Brownwood, TX 76804.

Corinne T. Smith Animal Center

The Corinne T. Smth Animal Center is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that receives no government funding or funding from any national animal welfare groups such as the Humane Society of the United States or the ASPCA. We rely on the kindness and generosity of animal lovers in our community to allow us to continue our life-saving mission. Your support is desperately needed! Click here for more information

Greenleaf Cemetery

The cemetery is beginnning a major fund raising effort. Originally, the first five acres of land was given to the city of Brownwood as a city cemetery. That was in 1873. Graduallly more land was added. There was also 2 1/2 acres given for Masonic burials and 2 1/2 acres given for African Americans to have a free burial space. The 5 acres and the two 2 1/2 tracts were given by J. Greenleaf Fisk. By 1929, funds were collected for a perpetual care fund and the cemetery was incorporated as a non-profit organization. The city turned the caretakeing over to the cemetery board but the cemetery remained an agency of the city for funding. The city still has some in the budget for the cemetery. However, the cemetery now has 95 acres. The interest off of the perpetual care fund is no longer sufficent to take care of the expenses of the cemetery. We need to hire more workers in order to keep up with the demands of the upkeep of the cemetery. What we need is a major fund raiser to double the perpetual care cemetery fund so that we can increase the income and also make sure that the cemetery is able to survive into the future. We need gifts to the cemetery perpetual care funds; we need memorials; we need bequests in wills or trust; and we need people to make us the beneficiary of life insurance policies. The cemetery is a 501 (C) non-profit organization. All donations are tax deductable. We also need someone to take on a big fund raising project for us. We need a lot of people who will contibute monthly or yearly. This cemetery belongs to the people who are descendants of those buried there or have plots there. All those people need to step up to the plate and come to the help of the cemetery. Make your response to Box 455, Brownwood, Texas 76804. Thank you.--Ronnie Lappe