Brazos Past: A look at Waco 100 years ago
By Terri Jo Ryan
Tribune-Herald staff writer
The times, they were a-changing.
A hundred years ago, Waco’s city government underwent a dramatic change, from a system of a mayor and 10 aldermen to a mayor and four city commissioners.
A hundred years ago, Waco was home to two universities: Baylor University, with 40 instructors and almost 1,300 students (664 of them women); and Texas Christian University, with 26 instructors and 379 students (279 of which were in the Add-Ran College of Arts and Sciences).
A hundred years ago, Waco was a city of about 25,000 residents. The U.S. Census the following year recorded 26,425 souls who called the area home.
A hundred years ago, postcards were one of the most popular ways for a city to sell itself to visitors. So we share a few of them and a glimpse of life in 1909.
Sources: Handbook of Texas Online; Waco: A Sesquicentennial History by Patricia Ward Wallace.
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