Activities at the Brazos in the 1920s and 30s

ID: 1483 ~ Source: Jaynes, Charles Ray, interviewed by Dave Sikkema, July 26, 2008, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview

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Charles Ray Jaynes speaks of the things he did while visiting the Brazos river with his brother in the 1920s and 30s.

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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…