
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Waco, Texas. Official Website Waco is the county seat of McLennan County. It sits on the Brazos River halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city has seen its share of violence. In 1824, the Wichita Tribe of Waco and the European settlers had a violent altercation. In 1825, Stephen Fuller Austin made a treaty with the Wichita Trib...
Opened in February 1924. The main entrance to this cemetery is where South 12th Street dead-ends into Garden Drive in Waco, McLennan County, Texas. As of April 2011, the mailing address of the cemetery is PO Box 6213, Waco, TX, 76706, and the phone number is 254-752-6492. This cemetery is managed by the City of Waco, TX. Per a Find A Grave contributor in April 2011, the staff were extremely h...
From Waco, McLennan County, Texas, drive west on Highway 1637, then east (right) on Highway 3051. Drive about two blocks and there will be a red light. Turn left at the light onto Rock Creek Road. Drive until you see the cemetery on the right side of the road. Description: This is an older McLennan County cemetery and is located in Bosqueville Texas. It has good signage and is fenced. The prop...
Wikipedia ==Baylor University=Baylor University is a private Baptist university in Waco, Texas. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas, Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and was one of the first educational institutions west of the Mississippi River in the United States. The university's 1,000-acre campus is located on the banks of the Brazos River next to free...
Oakwood Cemetery was established in 1878 and grew into one the most beautiful cemeteries in the area. Oakwood was once the site of a horse racetrack far to the south of the City of Waco and out the dirt road known as South 5th Street. The racetrack and immediate environs were the location in 1874 of Waco’s earliest agricultural fair organized by the Texas Agricultural, Horticultural, Mechanica...
West Georgia Technical College (WGTC) is a public community college in Waco, Georgia. It is part of the Technical College System of Georgia and provided education for a seven-county service area that includes Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Haralson, Heard, Meriwether, and Troup. WGTC is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award techn...