Brazos River (c. 1916)

ID: 1439 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

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The river served as a point of interest for many people throughout the city, and famous Waco photographers often featured it in their work. E. C. Blomeyer (standing on the bluff above the river) took many photographs of the Brazos River.

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Brazos River

By Dayton Kelley, ed., The Handbook of Waco and McLennan County, Texas

The Brazos River proved to be both a blessing and a curse for Waco, providing a constant water supply, means of transportation, and fertile farming ground, but also serving as a site of frequent flooding and destruction. This tension shaped the…