Welcome to Texas Southmost College 

Texas Southmost College was initially created in 1926 as The Junior College of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. In 1931, the college name was changed to the Brownsville Junior College and then to Texas Southmost College in 1949.  

 

Originally created as an extension of the local independent school district in Brownsville, Texas, its first classes were held in the fall of 1926 in the local high school building. In 1927, the school district issued bonds for the construction of a new building to house the high school and the junior college. Fort Brown, the first military post established by the U.S. Government in Texas, was closed by the Army in 1944. After extensive efforts to acquire this property, a formal dedication ceremony was held on July 22, 1948, to commemorate the approval and transfer of the Fort Brown deed to the Brownsville Junior College.

 

On October 25, 1949, the Cameron County Commissioners Court voted to call an election to create the Southmost Union Junior College District. Voters approved the creation of the new district as well as a Board of Trustees at an election held on November 15, 1949. A naming contest was held to rename the institution and a $25 award was given to Seferino Rodriguez, a student form Rio Hondo, for submitting the winning entry: Texas Southmost College.  More>>