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A Public Affair

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I Wanna Love You Forever

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Irresistible

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The No-Pardons Governor and the Twelve-String Prisoner RoadyGoat

1918

The governor who grew up on the Leon River just west of Moody ran on a promise not to hand out pardons, and then a prisoner sang his way out. Pat Neff's family farmed the land that is now Mother Neff State Park. He became governor in nineteen twenty-one, and he cut pardons way down. Down at the prison farm in Sugar Land, there was a man serving time for murder, convicted in nineteen eighteen under the name Walter Boyd. His real name was Huddie Ledbetter. Neff met him in nineteen twenty-four. Ledbetter wrote a song pleading for his freedom, and Neff kept coming back to the prison, bringing guests for Sunday picnics to hear him play. In nineteen twenty-five, the no-pardons governor pardoned him. He had served the minimum seven years of his sentence, with credit for good behavior. The world would come to know him as Lead Belly, the king of the twelve-string guitar, the man behind Goodnight, Irene and Midnight Special. In nineteen eighty-eight he went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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History of Mcgregor

From Bombs to Boosters: McGregor's Engineering Legacy RoadyGoat

The area just west of McGregor is one of the most important rocket engine test sites on the planet. This legacy of engineering began when the WWII Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant was converted to test rocket technology after the war. The site's remote location and existing concrete bunkers made it ideal. Here, engineers from Rocketdyne ran the grounds as a solid propulsion plant, turning out solid rocket motors, gas generators, igniters, and JATO units, including the small but vital solid motors that powered air-launched missiles like the Sparrow, the Shrike, and the Phoenix, more than two hundred fifty thousand of them by the late nineteen sixties. When the race to the moon arrived, McGregor played its own part in the Saturn V program, not by test-firing the giant F-1 engines, each one roaring with about a million and a half pounds of thrust far out at Edwards Air Force Base in California, but by building the small solid ullage motors and gas generators that helped the towering rocket separate its stages and settle its fuel in flight. Today, SpaceX continues this tradition of boundary-pushing engineering. They built specialized test stands to fire and refine their Merlin engines, which power the reusable Falcon 9 rocket, and the advanced, methane-fueled Raptor engines for Starship. Every test, whether it lasts for a few seconds or several minutes, provides critical data on performance, thrust, and reliability, making this site a real-world laboratory for the future of space transportation.

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The Moon Race Ran Through McGregor RoadyGoat

You may be in Central Texas, but you're surprisingly close to the history of the Apollo moon landings. After WWII, the old bomb factory here was repurposed for something even more powerful: rockets. Phillips Petroleum ran a rocket-fuel operation on the site through the 1950s, and in 1959 Rocketdyne took over the testing and engineering plant. What came out of McGregor wasn't the giant first-stage engines — the firing bays here were built for small motors, up to five thousand pounds of thrust. What came out of here was everything else. By the late 1960s this plant had produced more than a quarter of a million rocket motors and thousands of gas generators and igniters, the small hardware that makes big engines light and keeps them running. Among them were ullage motors, the little solids that settle the fuel in a stage before the main engine fires. No ullage motor, no burn. So when you see footage of an Apollo mission on its way to the moon, remember that some of the pieces that got it there were fired first in a McGregor, Texas pasture.

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The Star-and-Cross Railroad Town RoadyGoat

Take a look at the streets in downtown McGregor. Notice anything unusual? Main Street and several others run at a sharp diagonal, cutting across a more traditional north-south grid. That isn't a planning mistake; it's the town's birth certificate written on the landscape. McGregor was established in 1882 precisely where the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway crossed the Texas and St. Louis Railway, the line later known as the Cotton Belt. The town plan was laid around that crossing, with the main street following the angle of the rails, so the most valuable commercial lots faced the railroad that was the town's lifeblood. On September 7th of that year, a state land commissioner sold the first lots at auction from the back of a railroad flatcar. So as you drive through, you're seeing a physical echo of the two iron horses whose meeting, right here on the prairie, created a town from scratch.

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Kane, John Riley

1943

World War II Medal of Honor recipient John Riley "Killer" Kane was born on January 5, 1907, in McGregor, Texas, the son of John Franklin Kane, a Baptist minister. As a youth Kane lived in Texas, Louisiana, and Missouri as his father traveled to different church assignments. Kane graduated from high school in DeSoto, Missouri. With a brash and outspoken personality, he expressed no interest in following in his father's footsteps. In 1924 Kane enrolled at Baylor University with intent on becoming a medical doctor majoring in zoology and German. At Baylor he played on both the football and basketball teams, and in 1926 he took part in a halftime fight at a Baylor-Texas A&M football game in which an Aggie player was fatally injured. As a member of the Baylor basketball team on January 22, 1927, Kane was a passenger on the school's charter bus that was rammed in the side at a railroad crossing in Round Rock on a road trip to Austin. Although Kane was not injured, ten members of the group of twenty-two players, coaches, and fans were killed in the Baylor Bus Crash of 1927 . After graduating with his A.B. degree from Baylor in 1928, Kane attended medical school at Washington University in St. Louis for two years. He left medical school after determining, "I couldn't stand all that medical smell, chloroform and ether and all. It actually made me sick." After leaving medical school, Kane went to Eagle Springs, Texas, where he worked on his grandfather's farm for a year and decided to become a pilot. At first, he tried to join the Marine Corps but was told by a recruiter: "Listen, Buddy, you don't want to learn to fly. It ain't no different from driving a truck." In 1932 he joined the United States Army Air Corps at San Antonio and attended flight school at Kelly and Randolph Field , earned his wings, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officer's Reserve Corps. In 1933 he served in a variety of positions at Rockwell Field and March Field in California, and at Barksdale Field in Shreveport, Louisiana, until being discharged from active duty. For a time, Kane found employment selling houses and digging ditches for an oil company. He was recalled to active duty and spent several years at Barksdale training pilots for the growing Army Air Corps. In February 1942 Captain Kane was transferred to Lackland Air Force Base as a squadron commander. In July 1942 he was assigned to the Middle East Theater of Operations as a squadron commander of the Ninety-eighth Bombardment Group and attained the rank of major that year. He was promoted to colonel and became commander of the Ninety-eighth in 1943. Colonel Kane accumulated a total of 250 combat hours in forty-three combat missions and received a Silver Star for his performance in outmaneuvering a Messerschmitt 110 during his time in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater of Operations. John Kane possessed an aggressive personality and a tough domineering manner that inspired both respect and hatred from those that had to deal with him. He could be outspoken and direct in his views, even with his superiors. With members of his own crew, he often was blunt in an effort to maintain a distance; "I was there to try to keep them alive, not to mother them." Kane was given the nickname "Killer" by fellow pilots who got the name from the character named "Killer Kane" in the Buck Rogers comic strip. The nickname "Killer" fitted Kane's unique personality and it stuck. With Kane as their commander, the Ninety-eighth (nicknamed the "Pyramiders") played a key role in Operation Tidal Wave on August 1, 1943. This operation constituted one of the most daring bombing raids by the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) in World War II. This mission involved some 179 B-24 Liberators, divided into five groups, in a low level bombing attack on the Nazi-held oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania, which was believed to be providing Nazi Germany with 60 percent of their crude oil. Starting from airfields around

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McGregor Mirror

1904

In 1904, the McGregor Mirror was founded by T.E. Streight (1870-1910). A young type setter, Charles “Chas” B. Hall (1887-1964), went to work at the Mirror when it opened. Later, he and his wife, Lillian “Lillie” (Spross) Hall (1890-1955), purchased it in 1918. Their daughter Bonnie Hall) Mooney (1925-1998) and husband Thomas E. Mooney (1924-1994) published the Mirror from 1956 to 1992. Their children continue publishing the award-winning newspaper marking three generations in the same building where it was established in 1904. The building houses one of the earliest Model 14 Linotypes in Texas, which was purchased at the State Fair in 1925 and was used until the 1990s. for generations, the Mirror has documented and preserved important, personal community events through the years.

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Deyerle-Fall House

1892

William W. Deyerle (1853-1920), banker, rancher, and miller, came to central Texas from Virginia. With his wife Willie (Christie), he hired master stonemason Henry Wissman to build this house. Wissman cut and hauled the limestone himself, placing each stone according to his own plan. Striking architectural features of the house include a hipped roof, arched windows, a central porch with turned columns, and a bracketed cornice. The home was completed in 1892. William Deyerle died in 1920, and after Willie Deyerle and her new husband Camden Sanborn were killed in 1926, the house was inherited by her sister, Mary Fall. The home remained in the Fall family until 1975. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1998

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Folsom, Alfred Iverson

1908

Alfred I. Folsom, pioneer urologist, son of Dr. Alfred Iverson and Mary Frances (Powell) Folsom, was born on May 9, 1883, in McGregor, Texas. After his preliminary education in McGregor and Waxahachie, he obtained a bachelor of arts degree from Southwestern University in Georgetown, followed by a degree in medicine from Southwestern Medical College (now the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas) in 1908. The first two years after medical school, he practiced general medicine in Alba, Texas. Subsequently, he acquired specialty training at the Mayo Clinic in New York in what was then the new surgical specialty of urology under the guidance of the eminent surgeon William F. Braasch. In 1913 Folsom began a practice in urology that became busy enough to require the services of numerous assistants. After training with Dr. Folsom, many of these assistants became distinguished urologists throughout the Southwest. Folsom held numerous clinical appointments, including professor of urology at Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas. He was also chief of the Department of Urology at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, where he was on the staff for thirty years. In 1916 Folsom was listed in the membership of the Texas Surgical Society as the state's only urologist. He founded the Dallas Southern Clinical Society in 1919 and is credited with starting the first urology training program in Texas, at Southwestern Medical College. He was also one of the nine organizers of the American Board of Urology, which oversees the board certification of all urologists in the United States. As a result of his dynamic and exciting lectures, Folsom was frequently sought as a guest speaker. His role was pivotal in altering urology from the undeveloped genitourinary surgery of the early twentieth century into an independent surgical specialty. On October 3, 1946, after becoming the only Texan to hold the office of president of the American Urological Association, Folsom was killed in an automobile accident outside Dallas. He was survived by his wife, Erma, and three children. Folsom was a Methodist.

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Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant

1942

In February 1942 the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps acquired 18,000 acres of land just southwest of McGregor, Texas, southwest of Waco and designated the tract as a site to manufacture munitions in support of the war effort. The National Gypsum Company was contracted to build, operate, and staff the plant. Officials broke ground for the facility, which was named after the Texas state flower, on April 18, 1942, and in October 1942 bombs began coming off the first production line. One of four ordnance facilities set up by the government, the Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant was the first to produce bombs used on the battlefield. Different production lines became active throughout 1942. Ultimately the facility produced three kinds of bombs-general purpose, semi-armor piercing, and fragmentation bombs-as well as other ordnance products and ammonium nitrate. Just as the United States ramped up production for World War II , the draft pulled millions of men into the armed forces and left a gap in the industrial workforce. Many women soon entered manufacturing jobs previously held almost exclusively by men. The Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant recruitment advertisements called for men and women of all races. However, African American men and women were compelled to use segregated facilities rather than working alongside White women or men. The result of such recruiting efforts was a workforce that reached a maximum size of approximately 5,000 at the height of the war. This influx of workers more than tripled the population of McGregor from 2,000 to 6,000 people and led to severe housing shortages in Waco and the surrounding area. The Bluebonnet plant had its own housing, hospital, newspaper, stores, and transit system as well as police and fire departments for its workers. Women fulfilled a range of jobs throughout the plant, including operating forklifts and other heavy machinery to prepare the bombs for shipment. Though sometimes facing the challenges of harassment and stereotyping, women workers played an integral role in the production effort, and integrated work places such as Bluebonnet ultimately helped change social attitudes and led male managers and coworkers to appreciate women's skills and capabilities. The women working at Bluebonnet and other industrial jobs proved themselves able to adapt to these physically demanding and dangerous jobs. Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant was awarded the Army-Navy "E" Award for "outstanding performance in war production" on October 27, 1944. Near the end of the war much of the site was leased out for farming and ranching even as the ordnance plant itself remained a functional military installation. The surrender of Germany and Japan signaled the end of World War II and spurred rapid demobilization within the U.S. armed forces and wartime economy. When the plant ceased production on August 14, 1945, more than four million bombs had been produced along with almost nine million other ordnance items. Soon after the war ended the ordnance plant was closed. In April 1946 the facility was transferred from the War Department to the War Assets Administration. A majority of the acreage went to the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) for Bluebonnet Farm, an experimental agricultural research center. Some sections of the facility were converted to peacetime production of stoves and furniture. In 1952 the U.S. Air Force acquired more than 11,000 acres of the site and contracted with Phillips Petroleum Company for rocket fuel research and manufacturing. Aerospace research developed into a long-term use of the site, and various firms leased land on the site for rocketry testing and fuel production for decades after the ordnance assembly lines stopped rolling. The U.S. Air Force transferred ownership to the U.S. Navy in 1964. The site was designated the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant in 1973, but operations were turned over to Hercules, Inc., in 1978, and production continued until the p

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The Grange in Texas

1873

The Grange, also known as the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, was a nonpartisan national organization comprised of farmers to establish economic independence, socialization and greater educational opportunities for families. They garnered political attention and lobbied for the advancement and unity of America's agricultural sector. The first Texas Grange organized at Salado in 1873 under R.A. Baird, a deputy from the national Grange. The Texas State Grange had its headquarters in Dallas, and by 1876 counted membership of 40,000 men, women and children belonging to 1,275 lodges in Texas and Indian Territory (later Oklahoma).
 Grange members were influential in the state's Constitutional Convention of 1875, where their positions on taxing, railroad regulation and homestead protection were approved. The Grange's lasting legacy was their dedication to improving the public education system. They advocated for the establishment of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College (later Texas A&M University), the state's first public institution of higher learning. Grange master Archibald J. Rose was chairman of the Texas A&M board of regents from 1888-96. The development of agricultural cooperatives, a member insurance association and publication of Texas Farmer newspaper were also important Grange activities.
 In 1889, the Texas State Grange Fair Association was successful in the creation of a 400-acre experimental farm and exhibition hall in McGregor. Developed along the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway tracks near Harris Creek, the grounds became the site of annual state fairs, encampments and other gatherings for several years. The Grange continues today but with decreased membership and influence. (2019)

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Things to Do in Mcgregor

food 17.1 mi away

Magnolia Market at the Silos

Chip and Joanna Gaines' Fixer Upper empire. Shopping food trucks and shiplap everything.

food 17.3 mi away

Health Camp Burgers & Shakes

Mid-century burger-and-custard stand on the Waco Traffic Circle, open since 1949. The neon sign and the carhop layout are untouched roadside Americana.

historical 18.0 mi away

Waco, Texas - 1953 Tornado Aftermath

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The Bosque River Floods

The Bosque River runs through Clifton over impermeable bedrock that turns even moderate rains into serious floods. Documentary records going back to the 1900s…

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Everything Near Mcgregor

538 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the nearest 200 are listed here — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

From Bombs to Boosters: McGregor's Engineering Legacy
The area just west of McGregor is one of the most important rocket engine test sites on the planet. This legacy of engineering began when the WWII Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant was converted to test rocket technology after…
The Moon Race Ran Through McGregor
You may be in Central Texas, but you're surprisingly close to the history of the Apollo moon landings. After WWII, the old bomb factory here was repurposed for something even more powerful: rockets. Phillips Petroleum…
The Star-and-Cross Railroad Town
Take a look at the streets in downtown McGregor. Notice anything unusual? Main Street and several others run at a sharp diagonal, cutting across a more traditional north-south grid. That isn't a planning mistake; it's…
The Bomb Factory in the Cotton Fields
During World War Two, the landscape around McGregor was completely transformed. In February 1942, the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps acquired eighteen thousand acres of farmland just southwest of here to build the Bluebonnet…
McGregor, TX
While no famous individuals are noted as originating from this Texas city, its association with a popular HGTV show brings a touch of celebrity.
McGregor Mirror · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker
In 1904, the McGregor Mirror was founded by T.E. Streight (1870-1910). A young type setter, Charles “Chas” B. Hall (1887-1964), went to work at the Mirror when it opened. Later, he and his wife, Lillian…
McGregor · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past McGregor, a town that owes its start to the railroad. On this day, back in 1882, lots were sold for this brand new town, advertised statewide by two major railways. It was named for Dr. Gregor…
First Baptist Church of McGregor · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through McGregor, and right here is the First Baptist Church. Its roots go way back to 1858, with the Onion Creek Baptist Church, about ten miles southwest. About thirty members from the Comanche Springs…
First Christian Church of McGregor (Disciples of Christ) · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of McGregor's First Christian Church. It all started in the 1870s with just four families near Comanche Springs. They called Reverend W. L. Harrison to be their first pastor. When the…
Glenn and Mary Gulledge Crain House · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Glenn and Mary Gulledge Crain House, built in 1892. Glenn Crain, whose father was McGregor's first mayor, started selling insurance and married Mary Gulledge in 1890. They hired architect Charles…
Zion Lutheran Church · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Zion Lutheran Church, a spiritual and cultural anchor for German immigrants in Central Texas. As early as 1890, families gathered in homes, speaking German and holding informal worship…
Deyerle-Fall House · 1.8 mi · Historical Marker
William W. Deyerle (1853-1920), banker, rancher, and miller, came to central Texas from Virginia. With his wife Willie (Christie), he hired master stonemason Henry Wissman to build this house. Wissman cut and hauled the…

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Kane, John Riley · 2.0 mi · Tsha Handbook
World War II Medal of Honor recipient John Riley "Killer" Kane was born on January 5, 1907, in McGregor, Texas, the son of John Franklin Kane, a Baptist minister. As a youth Kane lived in Texas, Louisiana, and Missouri…
Folsom, Alfred Iverson · 2.0 mi · Tsha Handbook
Alfred I. Folsom, pioneer urologist, son of Dr. Alfred Iverson and Mary Frances (Powell) Folsom, was born on May 9, 1883, in McGregor, Texas. After his preliminary education in McGregor and Waxahachie, he obtained a…
Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant · 2.0 mi · Tsha Handbook
In February 1942 the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps acquired 18,000 acres of land just southwest of McGregor, Texas, southwest of Waco and designated the tract as a site to manufacture munitions in support of the war effort.…
Davis, Roy Bennett · 2.0 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McGregor, Texas, the birthplace of Roy Bennett Davis. Born here in 1900, Davis would go on to become a giant in the cotton industry. He transformed the Plains Cooperative Oil Mill in Plainview…
McGregor, TX · 2.0 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McGregor, Texas, a town born from a handshake and a promise. It started in 1882 as McGregor Springs, named for Dr. Gregor Carmichael McGregor, who gifted land to the railroad. Imagine this: lots…
The Grange in Texas · 2.9 mi · Historical Marker
The Grange, also known as the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, was a nonpartisan national organization comprised of farmers to establish economic independence, socialization and greater educational opportunities for…
A Star in the Window, a Marker by the Road · 3.1 mi
This road carries a Blue Star Memorial Highway designation, one of a string of them across Texas. The name comes from a family tradition. When someone in a household was serving in the armed forces, the family displayed…
Firing a Rocket That Isn't Going Anywhere · 4.5 mi
What exactly is a "static fire"? It's running a rocket engine at full power while it stays bolted firmly to the ground, going absolutely nowhere. That might sound pointless, but it's one of the smartest things in all of…
Listening to an Engine Scream · 4.5 mi
When an engine roars to life on a test stand, it looks like pure spectacle, all fire and thunder. But to the engineers, it's mainly a flood of information. The stand is wired head to toe with sensors, all measuring at…
Where Every Rocket Engine Gets Its Tryout · 4.6 mi
On a sprawling stretch of land outside McGregor, SpaceX fires its rocket engines, and the ground itself seems to shake with it. Essentially every engine the company builds is test-fired right here before it's ever…
How a Rocket Engine Doesn't Melt Itself · 4.6 mi
Here's a puzzle that sounds impossible. A rocket engine burns its fuel at a temperature hotter than the melting point of the very metal the engine is made from. So why doesn't the whole thing just melt into a puddle the…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Oglesby (Oglesby) · 6.0 mi
Oglesby (Oglesby, TX) placed on the 2A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Jaxon Markum (0.515 avg, 2 HR).
First Baptist Church of Oglesby · 6.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the First Baptist Church of Oglesby. Its history traces back to 1893, with an official founding in September 1896. The congregation has been active in missionary outreach and community…
Oglesby, TX · 6.3 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Oglesby, Texas, a town born from the railroad. It started as 'Hilltop' in 1882, named for its high elevation along the St. Louis Southwestern Railway. But the name didn't stick. It was soon…
First Methodist Church of Oglesby · 6.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Oglesby's First Methodist Church. Organized in 1891, the congregation lost its first building to a tornado just two years later. The current Queen Anne style structure was completed in…
Teague Property, The Isaac Jackson · 6.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Isaac Jackson Teague property, a home built for a large family back in 1899. Isaac Teague, born right here in Texas, bought this land in 1893. He hired a local contractor to build this farmhouse,…
First Baptist Church of Crawford · 6.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Crawford, home to the First Baptist Church. Organized in 1878 with about a dozen members, it met in the schoolhouse initially. The church has been a spiritual and community leader in Crawford for…
First United Methodist Church of Crawford · 6.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the First United Methodist Church of Crawford. Area families met for prayer as early as the 1840s. The church was officially organized around 1878 and has served the Crawford community…
Crawford · 6.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Crawford, a town that grew from a humble 1850s settlement. It started around Tonk Crossing, a key point on early trade routes. The town itself was laid out at a crossroads, but its name is a bit of a…
Crawford Schools · 6.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Crawford, and right here is the site of a school system with a long history. Educational efforts in Old Crawford started way back in the 1870s, with classes held in a simple one-room schoolhouse.…
Harris Creek Baptist Church · 6.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Harris Creek Baptist Church. Worship services once gathered in the home of Aquilla and Delila Jones. In 1872, they donated this land for a church, school, and cemetery. The congregation…
Crawford, TX · 6.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McLennan County, heading towards Crawford. This community started back in the 1850s, centered around a river crossing called Tonk Crossing. The town itself likely got its name from Nelson…
Baker, James B. · 6.8 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McLennan County, not far from Crawford, where a young man named James B. Baker took up arms for the Confederacy. Born in 1847, Baker was just fifteen years old when he left managing his family's…
Harris Creek Cemetery · 6.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Harris Creek Cemetery, a final resting place for some of the earliest settlers in this part of McLennan County. The story here starts back in the 1850s when families like the Haleys, Crains,…
Crawford Cemetery · 6.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Crawford, and just off the road is Crawford Cemetery. It started with a tragedy in the mid-1870s, when a young boy named Harvey Gilmore Kee died just shy of his second birthday. His parents,…
Station Creek Cemetery · 7.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Station Creek Cemetery, a final resting place for early Coryell County settlers. Established in 1856, it holds the remains of Robert F. Morris, the first buried here. Look for the graves of…
Evergreen Cemetery · 7.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Evergreen Cemetery, established on land given by William and Margaret Oliver back in 1860. For decades, families gathered here for camp meetings, and later, these evolved into annual reunions for…
Eagle Springs Baptist Church · 7.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Eagle Springs Baptist Church. This congregation started way back as the Church of Onion Creek, but their first log building burned down in 1854. By 1858, they’d built a new place here and…
The Western White House · 8.1 mi
For eight years, the most powerful address in the world sometimes had a Crawford, Texas zip code. When President George W. Bush established his Prairie Chapel Ranch as the 'Western White House,' this town of 700 people…
Crawford, TX · 8.1 mi
Crawford, Texas, sits nestled in the rolling hills of McLennan County, a landscape shaped by the Bosque River and the fertile Blackland Prairie. It's a place that might have remained just another quiet Texas town, its…
The Protest at Camp Casey · 8.1 mi
In August of 2005, the roads leading to the President's ranch became a different kind of landmark. This is where Cindy Sheehan, a mother whose son had been killed in the Iraq War, set up a protest camp. She hoped to…
Wiring the Western White House · 8.1 mi
When Crawford became the Western White House, the challenge was blunt: give the President of the United States the same secure, instantaneous reach he has in the Oval Office, from 1,583 acres of pasture seven miles…
The Ghost of Tonk Crossing · 8.1 mi
Every town has a beginning, and Crawford's is a river crossing. Before there was a town there was Tonk Crossing, also called Crawford Crossing, a ford on the Middle Bosque River where settlers started arriving in the…
Perry Cemetery, Old · 8.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the last vestige of the Perry community, established by pioneer settlers here in McLennan County. Look around – all that remains is this cemetery. It began with the burial of Jane Leach, a…
Engineering a Town's Location · 8.3 mi
The location of Oglesby isn't an accident of history - the railroad put it here. In 1882 the narrow-gauge Texas and St. Louis Railway pushed a line from Waco to Gatesville, straight through country that had been settled…
Crain, Joel Bunditt · 8.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through McLennan County, and right here is where Joel Bunditt Crain lived out his days. He was a sergeant-major in General Sam Houston's army during the Texas War for Independence. Imagine this: Crain was…
Coryell Baptist Church · 8.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Oglesby, the site of Coryell Baptist Church, the county's first Baptist church. Organized in June 1885, the congregation met in homes and a schoolhouse before erecting their own building that same…
Shiloh Baptist Church · 8.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Crawford, not far from Hog Creek. Back on May 17th, 1884, five people met in the Bellview Schoolhouse to start Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church. They met just once a month back then, for services…
Welborn-Bostick Home · 9.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Moody, Texas, and right here is the Welborn-Bostick Home. This land has been in the same family for over 120 years, making it the oldest continuously family-owned property in Moody. James Irby…
Mother Neff State Park · 9.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Ever wonder where Texans went for outdoor fun nearly a century ago? Mother Neff State Park, just ahead, has been a beloved escape since the 1930s. Isabella Neff, affectionately known as Mother Neff, and her son Noah…
Six acres that became Texas's park system · 9.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Texas's first official state park, Mother Neff State Park! It all started in 1916 with a six-acre plot willed to the state by Isabella Neff, the mother of Governor Pat Neff. She wanted…
Mother Neff State Park · 9.5 mi · Historical Marker
First official state park in Texas; suggested the idea for the State Parks system. Originated with a 6-acre plot willed to Texas in 1916 by Mrs. Isabella E. Neff, mother of Pat M. Neff, Governor of Texas (1921-1925)…
Willow Grove Community Cemetery · 9.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through McLennan County, near Willow Grove. This cemetery you're passing has served this community since the late 1800s. It all started after emancipation, when former slaves William 'Buck' Manning and…
Naler Cemetery · 9.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Naler Cemetery, a resting place that started with a family tragedy. In 1863, Joseph Naler buried his wife Polly here, on land he'd settled just 12 years earlier after migrating from Georgia. Naler…
The Mother Who Would Not Take Money for Her Riverbank · 9.8 mi
West of Moody, on the Leon River, there is a state park that exists because one woman refused to charge anybody to use her riverbank. Isabella Neff came from Virginia as a newlywed in eighteen fifty-four, a ride of…
The Steel Plow · 9.8 mi
The town of Moody is, fundamentally, an engineering project. In 1880, this was just open prairie. Then came the surveyors from the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway. Their job was a complex math problem: find the…
The No-Pardons Governor and the Twelve-String Prisoner · 9.8 mi
The governor who grew up on the Leon River just west of Moody ran on a promise not to hand out pardons, and then a prisoner sang his way out. Pat Neff's family farmed the land that is now Mother Neff State Park. He…
Perry became a ghost town · 9.8 mi
Before there was a Moody, there was Perry. Just a few miles from here, Perry was the original settlement, a small but established community with a post office and a few businesses. Its residents must have felt secure.…
Moody, TX · 9.8 mi
Moody, Texas, sits nestled in a part of McLennan County where the Blackland Prairie begins its subtle roll towards the west. Unlike some of its neighbors, it never quite became a major agricultural hub, despite the…
The Galveston Cotton Colonel on the Town Sign · 9.8 mi
The town of Moody is named for a Galveston cotton banker who was captured in the Civil War, wounded, and went on to build one of the big Texas fortunes. William Lewis Moody was born in Virginia in eighteen twenty-eight…
Moody · 9.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Moody, Texas, and this town has a story tied to the railroad. Back in 1881, the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad decided to bypass the older settlement of Perry, just a couple miles north. So, a…
Tangent: The Other Moody Who Could Sink a Country · 9.8 mi
This town is not named for the man behind Moody's bond ratings, but that other Moody built something a newspaper columnist once ranked alongside a superpower. John Moody was born in eighteen sixty-eight, and he…
Kuydendall House · 9.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Kuykendall House in Moody. In 1900, Dr. P.M. Kuykendall, a prominent physician, built this beautiful Victorian home. He ordered the plans from a St. Louis architect, and the house features…
The Howard House · 9.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Moody, and right here is the Howard House, built in 1900. Charles Howard, who arrived in Moody when the town was founded in 1881, became a successful businessman. He built this elegant home for…
Moody United Methodist Church · 9.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Moody, Texas, and right here is Moody United Methodist Church. This congregation started way back in 1855 as a union church in the old settlement of Perry, just a couple miles northeast of here.…
Acree, Robert Fred · 10.0 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Central Texas, maybe near Moody, where Fred Acree started his remarkable life. Back in 1892, at just fourteen years old, he bought a bookcase full of old books and began a lifelong passion for…
Hill House · 10.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Hill House in Moody. George Hill arrived in Texas as a boy, eventually settling in this town. After working in a local hardware store and buying it out, he had this home built for his family in…
Moody, TX · 10.0 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Moody, a town born from the railroad. In 1881, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway laid track right through here, connecting Temple and Fort Worth. They named this spot Moody in honor of…
First Baptist Church of Moody · 10.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the First Baptist Church of Moody, a congregation with roots stretching back to 1855. It was organized over two miles north in a community called Perry, with Elder S.G. O'Bryan as its first pastor.…
Moody Cemetery · 10.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Moody Cemetery, a final resting place for many of this town's early pioneers. The idea for this burial ground came about soon after Moody was founded in 1881, as folks sought a closer spot than…
Miller, Doris · 10.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Central Texas, and right here near Willow Grove, you're passing through the birthplace of Doris Miller. He was the first African American hero of World War II. Born in 1919, Miller enlisted in the…
Stanford Chapel Cemetery · 10.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Stanford Chapel Cemetery, a place with roots stretching back to 1862 when Reverend Thomas Stanford and his family arrived in Texas. The Stanfords, along with the E. R. Barcus family, were true…
Speegleville Baptist Church · 10.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Speegleville Baptist Church, a congregation that's been a part of this community for over 150 years. It all started back in 1850, organized as Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in the home of…
Moore, John Creed · 10.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Crawford, Texas, and the site of a true Civil War hero: Brigadier General John Creed Moore. He earned the rare Star and Wreath distinction for gallantry, a testament to his bravery on the…
Osage Cemetery · 10.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Osage Cemetery, a place that's been serving this community since the 1870s. The first marked grave here is from 1874, belonging to R.P. Doherty. For its early years, this land was actually privately…
Moody-Leon United Methodist Church · 11.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Moody-Leon United Methodist Church, a testament to German immigrant faith in Bell County. Established way back in 1877 by Reverend F. Von Schulenbach, this congregation was brought together by…
The Line Drawn in 1955 · 11.3 mi
In the spring of 1955 the land southwest of Waco held two loose settlements - Woodland West and the Village of Midway - and about two hundred fifty people. In May the citizens started talking incorporation. The…
Taming the Bosque River · 11.3 mi
As you drive through Woodway, the massive body of water to your west, Lake Waco, is more than just a pretty view - it's a monumental piece of civil engineering. The original, smaller Lake Waco, dammed in 1930, was no…
A Garden for the City · 11.3 mi
The Carleen Bright Arboretum is named for a woman who was here before the town was. Carleen Bright was born on a farm west of Waco in the Whitehall community — ground that sits inside the city of Woodway today. She…
Woodway, TX · 11.3 mi · Local history
The name Woodway has a unique origin, stemming from a creative blend of existing local place names. In the early 1950s, a committee of citizens came together with the task of naming their developing community. They…
2021 UIL 3A Division 1 Football State Champions · 11.4 mi
Lorena High (Lorena, TX): Most recent: 35-18 over Brock · 2021 3A Division 1 final.
The Town That Art Saved · 11.5 mi
You’re driving through a town that literally owes its existence to art. By the 1960s, Edom was on the verge of becoming a ghost town. The railroad had passed it by, the school had closed, and young people were leaving.…
Bypassed by the Railroad · 11.5 mi
One of the most important things that ever happened to Edom is something that *didn't* happen. In the 1870s, railroad companies were laying tracks across Texas, creating boomtowns wherever they went. The Texas and…
The Science of the Soil · 11.5 mi
As you look out at the landscape around Edom, you're seeing the product of some very specific soil science - and of a town that got named out of the book of Genesis. This settlement started in 1849 a few miles from…
The Old Edom School · 11.5 mi
As you pass through town, picture the old Edom school. For a full century it was the heart of this community. Edom's schools opened in 1866, in a settlement that had already been here since 1849 under the name Hamburg —…
Central Presbyterian Church · 11.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Waco's Central Presbyterian Church, a congregation with roots stretching back to 1869. It started as the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Waco with just 18 members. Their first…
Pecan Grove Baptist Church · 11.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Pecan Grove Baptist Church. It was organized in 1882 as Coryell Creek Baptist Church of Christ. Early services were held at local schools and brush arbors, with the first tabernacle built…
Stampede Creek · 11.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Stampede Creek, but this creek's name has a wild origin story. Back in 1839, Captain John Bird and his 34 Texas Rangers fought a fierce battle with over 200 Caddo, Kickapoo, and Comanche warriors…
Papa Joe's Texas Saloon · 12.1 mi
There's a motorcycle bolted to the roof of Papa Joe's Texas Saloon, right off Interstate 35 in Lorena. Inside it's pool tables, neon, and paintings of the Coors cowboy wrapped in plastic to keep the cigarette smoke off…
Lorena, TX · 12.1 mi
Lorena's always been a place where Friday night lights shine a little brighter, especially when the Leopards are facing McGregor. That rivalry's a constant, something you can set your watch by. But lately, there's been…
Bull Hide Creek Iron Bridge · 12.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Bull Hide Creek Iron Bridge, built in 1914 by the El Paso Bridge and Iron Company. This 69-foot Warren pony truss bridge, with its timber deck and concrete piers, served as a vital…
Patton Baptist Church · 12.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Patton Baptist Church. This congregation started out as Walnut Grove Baptist Church of Christ, organized way back in 1872, a few miles south of here. For a while, they worshipped in a…
Prairie Chapel School · 12.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Prairie Chapel School, established in 1884. A German immigrant and Civil War veteran, Heinrich Engelbrecht, donated land in 1908 for a three-room schoolhouse. This important community…
Lorena United Methodist Church, The · 12.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Lorena, and right here is the Lorena United Methodist Church. Organized way back in 1881, this congregation first met in the local Baptist church building. By 1886, they’d built their own…
H. J. and Cora Hudson House · 12.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the H. J. and Cora Hudson House, built starting in 1881. Herbert Hudson, originally from England, came to Lorena in 1877 and married Cora Field here in 1880. He became a prominent businessman,…
Canaan Baptist Church · 12.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Crawford, past the Canaan Baptist Church, a testament to German immigrants who settled this area. Back in 1891, forty German settlers gathered in a local schoolhouse to form this congregation. For…
Canaan Baptist Cemetery · 12.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Canaan Baptist Cemetery, established in 1894 by the church. Land was donated by Heinrich Engelbrecht, a Civil War veteran, with the earliest marked grave belonging to Austrian immigrant Franz…
Coryell County · 12.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Coryell County, named for James Coryell, a Tennessee native who came to Texas in 1831. He joined the Bowie Expedition searching for silver, served as a Texas Ranger, and was tragically killed by…
Lorena Cemetery · 12.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Lorena Cemetery, a final resting place with roots stretching back to the railroad boom. In eighteen eighty-one, Daniel Aerl set aside two acres here for pioneer settlers. Just days later, financier…
Graham, Jesse · 12.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Coryell County, where Jesse Graham settled with his family in 1855. He was a Primitive Baptist minister who organized Sugarloaf Baptist Church and pastured it. Graham also helped establish…
Davidson Cemetery · 12.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Davidson Cemetery, a final resting place for over 600 people. James Madison Davidson arrived in Texas in 1852 and, with his wife Vianna, was among the first couples married in Coryell County in 1854.…
Site of Waco Boating and Fishing Club · 12.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of a surprisingly exclusive club that started right here in Waco. Back on January 10, 1890, some of the city's most prominent citizens met to form a boating and fishing club. They got their…
Daniel, Charles Davis · 12.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Navarro County, Texas, and right here, in Lorena, is where Charles Davis Daniel spent his final years. Born in Alabama in 1856, Daniel’s life took him from Brazil, where his family moved after the…
Lorena, TX · 12.5 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving southwest of Waco on I-35, and you're passing through Lorena. This town owes its existence to the railroad. Right here, in 1881, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line was being built, and the townsite was…
The Concrete River: How I-35 Made Modern Hewitt · 12.6 mi
The highway you may be driving on right now, Interstate 35, is the single most important piece of engineering in Hewitt's modern history. Think of it as a great concrete river. When it was built through here in the…
The Town That Moved to the Tracks · 12.6 mi
The town of Hewitt owes its existence, its location and even its name to a railroad. In 1882 the Missouri, Kansas and Texas - the Katy - pushed a line south from Hillsboro toward Taylor, straight across this stretch of…
The Vote That Made a Suburb · 12.6 mi
For nearly eighty years, Hewitt was barely a village. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad put it on the map in 1882 and named it for a railroad director, George A. Hewitt. From the early 1930s clear through the…
Hewitt, TX · 12.6 mi
Hewitt's community flourished on farming and agriculture, especially during the days when 'cotton was king'. This agricultural heritage has been a significant part of the town's identity and economy.
Midway High School — State Softball 2026 · 12.7 mi
Midway High School in Waco, Texas qualified for the 2026 UIL state softball championships, reaching the state tournament (final four) in Class six A, Division One.
Hewitt Baptist · 12.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Hewitt Baptist Church, a place that's been a cornerstone of this community for over a century. It all started on November 4th, 1894, when twenty members of a nearby church decided to form their own…
White Hall Cemetery · 12.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past White Hall Cemetery, the last remnant of a once-thriving farming community called White Hall. The earliest burials here date back to 1877, on land donated by Civil War veteran Captain Burl Jones…
Hewitt, TX · 12.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Hewitt, a town born from the expansion of the railroad. In 1882, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad laid track through this area, and decided to name this new stop after George A. Hewitt, one…
Bosque River Crossing of the 1841 Texas Santa Fe Expediton · 12.9 mi
You're driving past the Bosque River crossing, a tough spot for a doomed expedition. Back in 1841, President Lamar sent a group to New Mexico to open trade and claim land for the Republic of Texas. We forget how much a…
First United Methodist Church of Hewitt · 12.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Hewitt, and right here, you're passing the site of the First United Methodist Church. It all started way back in 1875, eight miles west, with Methodist settlers gathering at Stanford Chapel.…
Bruceville-Eddy, TX · 13.0 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Bruceville-Eddy, a town born from a rivalry between two railroad stops. <break time="400ms"/> Back in 1882, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad laid tracks, creating two stations: Bruceville,…
The Lake Waco Murders — Koehne Park, Waco, Texas, 1982 · 13.1 mi
Koehne Park sits on the edge of Lake Waco, a place where people fish and run trails. In July of nineteen eighty-two, three teenagers, Jill Montgomery, Raylene Rice and Kenneth Franks, were drinking beer here when,…
Bruceville, TX · 13.1 mi
Bruceville sits nestled in the Blackland Prairie, a stretch of fertile land carved out by ancient seas and the relentless work of the Brazos River and its tributaries. You can feel it in the rich, dark soil that clings…
Bruceville Baptist Church · 13.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Bruceville Baptist Church, a congregation with roots going back over 125 years. It started around 1870 as Salem Baptist Church in the town of Mastersville, holding services in homes and…
Bruceville Methodist Church · 13.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Bruceville Methodist Church, a congregation with roots stretching back to the Civil War era. Local tradition says it began as Cedar Bridge Methodist, holding services near a cedar bridge…
Providence Sanitarium · 13.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Providence Sanitarium, a hospital born out of necessity in Waco. Back in 1901, Dr. James W. Hale saw his patient needed care, but Waco didn't have the facilities. So, he teamed up with…
The Rivalry of Two Towns · 13.4 mi
You’re driving through a place with a split personality, literally. Bruceville-Eddy wasn’t always one town. For 92 years, they were Bruceville and Eddy, two separate, competing towns founded about a mile apart on the…
The Interstate's Shadow · 13.4 mi
As you cruise down Interstate 35, you're on the piece of engineering that redefined this place. Bruceville and Eddy started as two separate railroad stations in 1882 - Bruceville named for Lucien N. Bruce, who donated…
Bruceville-Eddy, TX · 13.4 mi
Bruceville-Eddy might be a small place, but it’s got deep roots in the land. Drive around a bit, and you’ll quickly see it’s ranching country. Cattle graze in fields that stretch out toward the Brazos, and you can…
The Katy Comes to Town · 13.4 mi
The reason you're passing a town here at all is a railroad nicknamed the Katy. In 1882 the Missouri, Kansas and Texas put stations on this stretch of prairie, and two communities formed around them. One took the name of…
St. Paul Lutheran Church · 13.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of St. Paul Lutheran Church. German farmers organized a congregation in the late 1870s, formally chartering it in 1883. They built their first sanctuary by 1896, then moved to this location…
Irons, Martin · 13.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Bruceville, Texas, where a Scottish immigrant named Martin Irons spent his final years. Irons, a machinist by trade, became a powerful union leader in the late 1800s. He helped organize workers for…
Brazos River Transmission Electric Cooperative · 13.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Waco, and right here is the story of the Brazos River Transmission Electric Cooperative. Organized in February 1941 by eleven small electric co-ops, this was the very first generation and…
Flowers House · 13.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Flowers House, a reminder of the cotton boom that once fueled this area. Built in 1910, this home was designed by Roy E. Lane, a prominent architect who left his mark on Waco. Look for the…
Eddy Methodist Church · 13.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Eddy Methodist Church, a place that's been serving this community for over a century. It all started back in 1868, when Methodists in the area built a simple sanctuary near a cedar log toll…
First Baptist Church of Eddy · 13.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the First Baptist Church of Eddy. It started life way back in 1875 as Sage Chapel. The congregation packed up their little frame church and moved it two miles east to the new town of Eddy…
St. John Lutheran Church · 13.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Coryell City, the site of St. John Lutheran Church. German immigrant families settled here in the 1880s, and this congregation was officially organized in 1889. The church building has been…
The Lake Waco Murders — Koehne Park, Waco, Texas, 1982 · 13.9 mi · Curated
Koehne Park sits on the edge of Lake Waco — a place where people fish and run trails. In July of nineteen eighty-two, three teenagers were found murdered near this park: Jill Montgomery, Raylene Rice, and Kenneth…
Sadler Cemetery · 14.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Coryell City, where settlers arrived around Rainey's Creek in the early 1850s. By 1871, the community cemetery was established on land set aside by Chester Calhoun Sadler, a farmer, freighter, and…
Crash At Crush · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving north of Waco, right through McLennan County. In 1896, this area was the site of one of the most spectacular publicity stunts in Texas history: the Crash at Crush. Passenger agent William George Crush of…
Bean, Peter Ellis · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what was once wild Texas frontier, a place where fortunes were sought and lives were often lost. Right here, in what is now McLennan County, Peter Ellis Bean found himself in the middle of a…
Connally, Thomas Terry · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McLennan County, Texas, the heart of oil country. Back in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1935</say-as>, the oil industry here was in a real slump. To help out, Senator Tom Connally…
Tehuacana Creek Councils · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McLennan County, right near where a series of important meetings happened back in the 1840s. These were the Tehuacana Creek Councils, where Texas officials tried to forge peace with numerous…
Bosqueville, TX · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Bosqueville is four miles northwest of downtown Waco near the intersection of Farm roads 1637 and 3051 in north central McLennan County. Settlement of the area was well underway by the 1850s, and the community may have…
Torrey Trading Houses · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
The firm of Torrey and Brothers traded widely with the Indians for about ten years, from John F. Torrey 's arrival in Houston in 1838 until 1848, when the Torreys sold the major trading house to George Barnard . The…
Bosque College and Seminary · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving near Bosqueville, not far from Waco. Right here is where Bosque College and Seminary once stood. Chartered in 1858, it was the first coeducational college in McLennan County. It offered a wide range of…
Axtell, TX · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Axtell is on Farm Road 1330 between U.S. Highway 84 and State Highway 31, eight miles northeast of Bellmead in eastern McLennan County. It was established in 1881, when the Texas and St. Louis Railway laid track from…
Downsville, TX · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Downsville is on Farm Road 434 eight miles southeast of downtown Waco in southeastern McLennan County. William Woods Downs owned the land in the 1850s and used slaves to work it; after the Civil War he gave each family…
Tours, TX · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Tours, on Farm Road 3149 seventeen miles northeast of Waco in northeast McLennan County, was first called St. Martinville. A wagon train from Teutopolis, Illinois, arrived at the site on November 11, 1874, the feast day…
Windsor, TX (McLennan County) · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Windsor is at the intersection of Farm roads 3268 and 3047, near the Middle Bosque River twelve miles west of Waco in west central McLennan County. It took its name from Windsor Ranch, which was the property of Harry…
Barcus, John M. · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McLennan County, and right here, in Bruceville, John M. Barcus was licensed to preach in 1880. He went on to earn the first M.A. degree from Southwestern University and served as secretary of the…
Bosque River · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through the heart of Texas, near the Bosque River. The name itself, 'Bosque,' is Spanish for 'woods,' and it likely got its name back in 1719 from the Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo. Some accounts even…
Graves, Marvin Lee · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Bosqueville, Texas, the birthplace of Dr. Marvin Lee Graves. Born in 1867, Graves wasn't just any doctor; he was a pioneer in Texas medicine. After earning his degree in New York City, he…
McLennan Community College · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McLennan County, and right here is the site of a Texas first! In 1965, voters approved the creation of McLennan County Junior College. The very next year, it became the first public junior college…
Patrick, TX (McLennan County) · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McLennan County, near the Brazos River, and you're passing through what used to be Patrick. The area was first settled in the 1850s and called Garrett's Mill. A post office named Starke Grove…
Scottish Society of Texas · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McLennan County, and right here, in the heart of Texas, Scots have been celebrating their heritage for decades. Back in 1963, the Scottish Society of Texas was formed, bringing together fifty…
Battle, TX · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Battle, once known as Battle Institute, is between State Highway 164 and Farm Road 2957 three miles northwest of Mart in eastern McLennan County. The area was settled about 1880 and named for Nicholas William Battle ,…
Elm Mott, TX · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Elm Mott is near the intersection of Interstate Highway 35 and Farm Road 308, eight miles north of Waco in northeast central McLennan County. The area was settled shortly after the Civil War by the Christian and Long…
Harrison, TX · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Harrison is on State Highway 6 some eight miles southeast of downtown Waco in eastern McLennan County. The area was part of a plantation owned by Gen. James E. Harrison during the late 1850s and 1860s. After the Civil…
Hoen, TX · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Hoen (Hoehn), also known as Pate, is on Farm Road 308 about four miles northeast of Leroy in northeastern McLennan County. It was established in the late 1800s by the George Hoehn family. The community became a flag…
Rosenthal, TX · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
Rosenthal was on U.S. Highway 77 four miles south of Robinson in southern McLennan County. The area was settled in the 1870s, and a school community called Oak Grove was established on Castleman Creek. By 1880 the main…
South Bosque, TX · 14.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
South Bosque is on the South Bosque River just south of U.S. Highway 84, eight miles northeast of McGregor in southwest central McLennan County. Though settlers began arriving in the area in the 1850s, the South Bosque…
Roy Bedichek · 14.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of Roy Bedichek, a giant of Texas education and culture. Born in Illinois in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1878</say-as>, he came to Falls County as a boy and was educated…
First United Methodist Church of Waco · 14.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Waco, and right here, you're passing the site of the very first church in town. Back in 1850, Reverend Joseph P. Sneed and 23 members started this Methodist congregation. They began meeting in a…
Central Christian Church of Waco · 14.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Waco, and right here is the site of Central Christian Church. It all started way back in 1867, with just eighteen members of the Disciples of Christ meeting in homes. By 1870, they had organized a…
Poston-Odle Cemetery · 14.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Poston-Odle Cemetery in Valley Mills. This land was set aside for burials in 1875 by John Odle after his sister Mary Odle Poston died. The cemetery gates were built using stones from the Old Rock…
UIL 4A Football State Champions — 2 titles · 14.7 mi
China Spring High School (China Spring, TX): Most recent: 24-21 over Boerne · 2022 4A Division 1 final.
Congregation Agudath Jacob · 14.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Waco, and right here, you're passing the site of Congregation Agudath Jacob, the city's first Orthodox Jewish congregation. It started small in 1888 with just fifteen families, meeting in a rented…
White Mound Baptist Church · 14.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of White Mound Baptist Church, organized back in 1874. It started sharing a log building with a school, eventually getting its own tabernacle in 1898 and a permanent sanctuary in 1914. The…
Waco Lodge No. 92, A.F.& A.M. · 14.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the home of Waco's oldest organization, still in continuous existence! It started as Bosque Lodge way back in 1852, and changed its name to Waco Lodge in 1856. This Masonic lodge has been devoted to…
Zion United Church of Christ · 15.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising past Zion United Church of Christ in Waco. Imagine this: it's the 1870s, and German-speaking immigrants are looking for a spiritual home. Pastor Friederich Werning starts holding services in a…
Congregation Rodef Sholom · 15.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Waco, home to Congregation Rodef Sholom, which means 'pursuing peace.' This historic Jewish congregation began forming back in 1869 with the Hebrew Benevolent Association, which later bought land…
Dr Pepper Company · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Texas, maybe sipping on a cold one. But did you know that iconic Dr Pepper was first concocted right here in Waco, back in 1885? It all started in a drugstore, where pharmacist Charles Alderton…
Jaworski, Leon · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Texas, maybe not far from Waco, where Leon Jaworski got his start. This wasn't just any lawyer; this was the man who headed the Watergate special prosecution force. Right here, in the early 1970s,…
Jesse Washington Lynching · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
Of the 492 lynchings that occurred in Texas between 1882 and 1930, the incident that perhaps received the greatest notoriety, both statewide and nationally, was the mutilation and burning of an illiterate…
Banton, Travis · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, Texas, the birthplace of Travis Banton, a Hollywood costume designer who defined the 'Paramount Look' during the Golden Age of cinema. Born in 1894, Banton moved to New York as a child but…
Beville, Alexander Archer · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, and right here, you're passing through the history of Texas dentistry. Alexander Archer Beville arrived in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1870</say-as>, and he's credited as the…
Bledsoe, Julius Lorenzo Cobb · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, Texas, the birthplace of Julius Bledsoe, a baritone whose voice would make an American classic out of "Ol' Man River." Right here, in Waco, this gifted musician got his start, eventually…
Boynton, Benjamin Lee · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, Texas, the birthplace of Benjamin Lee Boynton. Right here, in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1898</say-as>, a future football legend was born. Boynton wasn't just any player; in…
Oscar, Gussie · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, a town that once defied the law for a good show! Gussie Oscar, a pianist and conductor, took over the Waco Auditorium in 1915. She brought stars like Houdini and Will Rogers to town, but she…
Shaver, John Edwin [Eddy] · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, Texas, the hometown of Eddy Shaver. Born in 1962, Eddy grew up surrounded by music, the son of legendary songwriter Billy Joe Shaver. By age thirteen, Eddy was already playing on his…
Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, Texas, and right here is the home of the legendary Texas Rangers. The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum isn't just a building; it's the official state historical center dedicated to…
Thompson, Henry William [Hank] · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, Texas, the birthplace of Hank Thompson, a true innovator in country music. After serving in the Navy during World War II, Thompson returned to Texas and formed his band, the Brazos Valley…
Torrance, Edgar Lee · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, and right here, you're passing through the birthplace of the modern motel. Edgar Lee Torrance, born just up the road in Elk, Texas, was probably the first in the state to develop the concept…
Gay, George Henry, Jr. · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Texas, maybe near Waco, where George Henry Gay, Jr. was born back in 1917. He was a Navy pilot flying a torpedo bomber in the Battle of Midway. On June 4th, 1942, his squadron took off from the…
Burton, Marvin [Red] · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McLennan County, and right here, in the heart of Texas, you're passing through the territory of Marvin "Red" Burton, a Texas Ranger who wasn't afraid to stand up to the Ku Klux Klan. On October…
Lyons, Theodore Amar [Ted] · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Central Texas, maybe near Waco, where a baseball legend got his start. Ted Lyons wasn't just any pitcher; he was a star athlete at Baylor University, earning letters in baseball, basketball, and…
Waco, TX · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, a city with roots stretching back to an ancient agricultural village of the Waco Indians. Right here, in 1849, George Erath laid out the first block of this new town. It was a gamble,…
Coke, Richard · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
Richard Coke, Texas governor and United States senator, son of John and Eliza (Hankins) Coke, was born near Williamsburg, Virginia, in March 1829. He entered William and Mary College in 1843 and in July 1848 was awarded…
Evans, Richard D. · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
Richard D. Evans, noted African-American civil rights attorney and first president of the Texas State Conference of Branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), son of Col. Tom…
Moreland, Whitt L. · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
Whitt L. Moreland, Medal of Honor recipient, was born in Waco, Texas, on March 7, 1930, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd W. Moreland. He entered the military service in Austin. Private First Class Moreland was an…
Malone-Mayes, Vivienne Lucille · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
Vivienne Lucille Malone-Mayes, mathematician, civil rights activist, first Black woman with a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin , and first African American professor at Baylor University , was…
Westbrook, Charles A., Plantation · 15.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Lorena, Texas, and right here is the site of the old Westbrook Plantation. Charles Alexander Westbrook arrived in Texas from Mississippi in 1859, eventually settling in McLennan County after…
Armstrong, A. Joseph · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, home to one of the world's most impressive collections of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning poetry and manuscripts. Right here, A. Joseph Armstrong, a dedicated English professor, spent…
Barnard, George · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Texas, and right here, you're passing through a story of adventure and trade. George Barnard, a merchant from Connecticut, arrived in Texas in 1838. Just a few years later, in 1841, he joined the…
Barron, Thomas Hudson · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through McLennan County, and right here, you're passing near the heart of Texas Ranger history. Thomas Hudson Barron, a frontiersman who fought from the Mexican Texas period all the way through the…
Brooks, Samuel Palmer · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, the heart of Central Texas, and right here is where Samuel Palmer Brooks shaped a university for over thirty years. Born in Georgia, he came to Johnson County as a boy and eventually took…
Central Freight Lines · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Central Texas, and right here in Waco, a transportation giant got its start. In 1925, William W. Callan, Sr., fired up a single Model-T truck, founding Central Forwarding and Warehouse Company.…
Coke, Mary Evans Horne · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, the hometown of Mary Evans Horne Coke, the First Lady of Texas. When she was just fifteen, she met Richard Coke, who was so smitten by her foot and ankle that he declared he would marry her.…
Davenport, Jouett Harbert [John] · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving near Waco, Texas, where a Confederate regiment was organized in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1862</say-as>. Jouett Harbert Davenport, a local livestock raiser, was elected major of this unit,…
Davis, Mervyn Bathurst · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, Texas, a city that owes a debt to Mervyn Bathurst Davis. He arrived here in 1873, but Davis wasn't just a journalist; he was a passionate conservationist. In 1881, right here in Waco, he…
De Cordova, Jacob Raphael · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through the heart of Texas, and right here, you're passing through Waco. But did you know this city owes its very existence to a pioneering land agent and colonizer named Jacob Raphael De Cordova? Back in…
Friend, Kate Harrison · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Waco, and right here is a place that remembers Kate Harrison Friend, known to many as Miss Kate. By age thirteen, she'd read all of Shakespeare! She founded the Waco Shakespeare Club in 1899, and…
Harrison, Thomas · 15.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Central Texas, and right here in Waco, you're not far from the story of Thomas Harrison. He wasn't just any soldier; he rose to lead Terry's Texas Rangers during the Civil War. Harrison took…

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