Homegrown

ID: 292 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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Homegrown

Farming allowed the Davidians to be an almost entirely self-sustained community. The building in the back is the feed barn where the food was stored for the livestock they raised.

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By Kyle Baughman
The original Mount Carmel Center was established by Davidian founder Victor T. Houteff in 1935 about two miles outside of the City of Waco. Houteff, a Bulgarian immigrant, left the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and accepted teachings from the…