Marker Inscription
Application for Listing Non-State Historical Marker With the State included.
Historical Marker
Waco Springs
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About this site
Waco Springs is a historical marker in Waco, McLennan County, dedicated in 1964. It is one of 198 historical markers documented in McLennan County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 224 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.5603, -97.1274 near Waco. The nearest cataloged historic site is Waco Suspension Bridge, The (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include De Cordova, Jacob, Waco, and Gerald-Harris Shootings.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5309005691. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Waco Springs marker commemorates the site of the village of the Waco Indians, a semi-agricultural tribe that lived beside the springs on the Brazos River. The Wacos made a treaty with Stephen F. Austin in 1824 but were driven from the area by the Comanches about 1837. When Major George B. Erath laid out the townsite in 1849, the new city took its name from the Waco people; the marker was erected in 1936.
Sources: hmdb.orgtshaonline.org
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