Discover Brenham

What is this?

Beneath Brenham streets is a State Archaeological Landmark, a large system of historic cisterns. The cisterns were built in the late 1800's to store rainwater for public fire fighting. Private cisterns were also abundant throughout early Washington County, used for bathing, drinking and cooking.

This is Toubin Park - Toubin park, located in downtown Brenham, opened November 2011 and is part park and part history lesson. At Toubin Park you can:

• See a large private cistern circa 1880 and learn how it was used.
• Discover how public cisterns were built and supplied with water by innovative private businesses.
• Find out about present-day cisterns and how to harvest rainwater for your landscape, water features, livestock, and even for indoor use.

The Barnhill Center at the historic Simon Theatre

Brenham has over 180 acres of park land and that isn't just open fields. There are Baseball and Softball fields, soccer and football fields, playgrounds, covered pavilions, disk golf, skate park, tennis, basketball and sand volleyball courts, indoor/outdoor aquatic center, and we haven't even gotten to our historic carousel.

Learn more at the parks page.



Hohlt Park

Improvement projects

Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) - smart water meters:

The day of having meter readers coming by to read your meter are being phased out for the city of Brenham. Installing smart meters means less chance for reading error, but also means leaks could be detected sooner and homeowners notified. It also means more information will be available to utility customers about their usage and that is information that can be helpful in reducing energy, gas, and water usage.

For More information on AMI - visit the Utility Department


Before AMI


After AMI