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Harry L. Washburn Trial | Waco History
Harry L. Washburn Trial | Waco History
East Terrace House | Waco History
East Terrace House | Waco History
Texas Guinan | Waco History
Texas Guinan | Waco History
In Prohibition-era New York City, a dose of Texas flair enlivened the city’s roaring nightlife. Larger than life in personality and style, actress “Texas” Guinan commanded the nightclub circuit with her saucy wit. She sensationalized her life, blending fact with fantasy. The child of Irish immigrants, Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan was born on January 12, 1884, outside of Waco, Texas. Her family ran a grocery business while Guinan attended Sacred Heart Academy, where classmates knew her as Mamie....
Rebecca Sparks Co-operative Home | Waco History
Rebecca Sparks Co-operative Home | Waco History
Jeffie Conner | Waco History
Jeffie Conner | Waco History
Richard D. (R.D.) Evans | Waco History
Richard D. (R.D.) Evans | Waco History
Dr. Mae Jackson | Waco History
Dr. Mae Jackson | Waco History
Born the daughter of educators in segregated Mexia, Texas, in 1941, Mae Allison Johnson developed an early understanding of the significance of education and equality. Her parents, Allison Johnson and…
Black History Walk sponsored by Institute for Oral History (Feb 24)
Black History Walk sponsored by Institute for Oral History (Feb 24)
Join tour guides from the Institute for Oral History in the third annual Black History Walk in downtown Waco.
Eddie Bernice Johnson | Waco History
Eddie Bernice Johnson | Waco History
Hammond Laundry | Waco History
Hammond Laundry | Waco History
The Hammond Laundry Cleaning Machinery and Supply Company of Waco, Texas, began in East Waco on Elm Street in 1911 when Texas native William Hammond decided to try his hand at the laundry business. By midcentury, the Waco company boasted operations and sales throughout the world. Born in Hearne, Texas, on December 5, 1881, William Hammond moved to Waco in 1911. Almost immediately, he joined with Albert Vawter to form the Hammond-Vawter Tailoring company, with stores in Waco, Taylor, Bryan, and...
The Jockey Club Barbershop | Waco History
The Jockey Club Barbershop | Waco History
In the early part of the twentieth century, the area around Bridge Street on the west side of the Brazos River, known as the square, was home to various bars, restaurants, grocery stores, offices, insurance agencies, and other businesses that were African-American owned. The square boasted popular institutions like the Gem Theatre, Mecca Drug Store, and the Jockey Club Barber Shop, the first black-owned barbershop in the city. It originally opened in 1920 on the bottom floor of the Conner &...
Cupp's Drive-Inn | Waco History
Cupp's Drive-Inn | Waco History
Mission Waco Mission World | Waco History
Mission Waco Mission World | Waco History
Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Waco History
Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Waco History
During the 1960s and 70s, the Vietnam War rocked American communities from coast to coast, leaving death and division in its wake. McLennan County was no exception. The Waco Vietnam Veterans Memorial stands on the banks of the Brazos River as a silent but powerful testimony of the war’s impact on both the Waco community and the nation at large. While Waco’s memorial did not become a reality until several decades after the war’s end, its origin rests in the wartime experience of local veteran...
The Immortal Ten | Waco History
The Immortal Ten | Waco History
Waco Regional Airport | Waco History
Waco Regional Airport | Waco History
For close to a century, passengers flying into Waco have been treated to aerial views of the Brazos River weaving its way through downtown and the sunlight glistening off the towers of Baylor University. Waco today is served by the modern Waco Regional Airport. This was not always the case however, with commercial air service initially flying into Rich Field, an old army base near the current day Heart O’Texas Fairgrounds. The first commercial flight into Rich Field was a Travel-Air 6000...
Calle Dos | Waco History
Calle Dos | Waco History
Calle Dos emerged in the early twentieth century as a haven for Mexican immigrants fleeing border violence and rapidly developed into a center of culture and community for Waco’s Hispanic population. Prior to the establishment of Calle Dos, Mexican immigrants settled on the banks of the Brazos River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in an area called Little Mexico, or Mexican Sandtown. The dawn of the Great War and arrival of a military base in Waco in 1917 led to the city...
Word Inc. | Waco History
Word Inc. | Waco History
Founded in 1951, the Word label helped spark the multimillion-dollar genre of Christian Contemporary Music (CCM). And it was sportscaster and ministry student Jarrell McCracken who gave it a voice. McCracken was working in radio to finance his graduate education when someone approached him and asked that he use his broadcasting expertise to reach youth by combining ministry and sports. Overcoming his initial reluctance, McCracken warmed to the idea and recorded “The Game of Life”—a...
Floyd Casey Stadium | Waco History
Floyd Casey Stadium | Waco History
Floyd Casey Stadium housed the Baylor Football Program from 1950 until the opening of McLane Stadium in the fall of 2014. In 1936, Baylor Football’s home turf was Municipal Stadium, located at Fifteenth Street and Dutton Avenue. With a maximum seating of twenty thousand, it didn’t take long for the Baylor Football Program to outgrow this facility. In the late 1940s, a 500-member-strong Baylor Stadium Corporation formed to provide a new home for the Bears, and Baylor President W. R. White banded...
Horace Sherman Miller | Waco History
Horace Sherman Miller | Waco History
Once considered a hub for racist activity, Waco served as headquarters for writer and editor Horace Sherman Miller. An avowed white supremacist, Miller perpetuated and propagated racist ideas in the mid-twentieth century. He printed his newsletter, The Aryan Views—White Folks News, in Waco and circulated the publication across the world from 1950 until his death in 1964. Born in Central Texas in 1901 to Claude Thomas Miller and Lema Yarbro Miller, Horace Sherman Miller grew up in poverty and...
Bob "Tumbleweed Smith" Lewis | Waco History
Bob "Tumbleweed Smith" Lewis | Waco History
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Evangelia Settlement | Waco History
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Mercy Dee Walton | Waco History
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The Harley Berg Show | Waco History
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Juneteenth | Waco History
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Karem Shrine Temple | Waco History
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Walker's Auditorium | Waco History
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James Connally Air Force Base | Waco History
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The Junior League of Waco | Waco History
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Gladys Allen | Waco History
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Mary Maxwell Armstrong | Waco History
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Vivienne Lucille Malone-Mayes | Waco History
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Jules Bledsoe | Waco History
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Tom Wilson | Waco History
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Tour | African American History | Waco History
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Urban Renewal - Baylor University Project | Waco History
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Sanger Brothers Department Store | Waco History
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Standard Hat Works | Waco History
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Texas Christian University
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Shep Mullens
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Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home | Waco History
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Baylor Homecoming Parade | Waco History
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Heart O' Texas Fair & Rodeo | Waco History
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Elvis in Waco | Waco History
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Welcoming the Stranger: History of Waco Hotels with Ashley Bean Thorton by Waco History Podcast
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St. James United Methodist Church
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Podcast: The Baylor University Live Mascot Program
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Waco History Podcast Latest Episode
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Waco Founding: Your Hunt, Your History
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Oral Memoirs of Dwight Thomas Hoxie
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