Recreation and Leisure

ID: 1443 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

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The river served recreational purposes as well, when not bursting with dangerous flood waters. This photograph of young men and women canoeing in the Brazos River appeared in a Baylor student’s 1908 scrapbook.

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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…