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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Killeen, Bell County, Texas. Official Website Killeen is a military boom town due to it's close proximity to Fort Hood . History In 1881, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway extended its tracks through central Texas, buying 360 acres a few miles southwest of a small farming community known as Palo Alto, which had existed sin...
In 1834–1835, Little River became part of Robertson's Colony, made up of settlers from Nashville, Tennessee, led by Sterling C. Robertson; they were the families of Captain Goldsby Childers, Robert Davison, John Fulcher, Moses Griffin, John Needham, Michael Reed and his son William Whitaker Reed, William Taylor, and Judge Orville T. Tyler. This area became known as the Tennessee Valley. Soon af...
This cemetery is located on 3516 Lake Road, Killeen, Bell County, Texas. Find a Grave
Fort Cavazos, as it's now called, is a United States Army post located near Killeen, Texas. The post is named after Gen. Richard E. Cavazos, a native Texan and the US Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. Formerly named Fort Hood for Confederate General John Bell Hood, the post is located halfway between Austin and Waco, about 60 miles from each, within the U.S. state of Texas. The post is t...
Wikipedia Texas A&M University–Central Texas (TAMU-CT) is a public university in Killeen, Texas. It is one of the newest members of The Texas A&M University System. Founded in 1999 as a branch of Tarleton State University, it became an independent member of the Texas A&M University System in September 2009. TAMUCT is an upper division college, meaning its students must complete their freshman a...
This cemetery is across from Temple Airport, near the intersection of Highway 36 and Pea Ridge Road, in Temple, Bell County, Texas. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bell County, Kentucky. Official Website History The Wilderness Road was constructed in the 1790s through what is now Bell County. Bell County was formed in 1867, from portions of Harlan and Knox counties. It was named for Joshua Fry Bell , an attorney and member of Congress. The county courthouse has been thrice destroyed. In 19...
On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base. Hasan was shot and as a result paralyzed from the waist down. He was arraigned by a military court on July 20, 2011 and was charged with 13 cou...
This project is for those buried in North Belton Cemetery, Belton, Bell County, Texas. There is a memorial stone in the cemetery that says 105 Confederate soldiers are at rest here. Find a Grave