The Cotton Palace, Markers in Time

ID: 3411 ~ Source: Video courtesy of City of Waco Productions, copyright 2025, https://mywacotv.com/program/markers-in-time/.
This file appears in: The Texas Cotton Palace

The Markers in Time series dives deeper into the stories behind the historic markers in Waco.

This file appears in: The Texas Cotton Palace

By Jim Stingley
When Stephen F. Austin led the first Anglo-American settlers into Texas including areas along the Brazos River, they brought with them their strong agricultural tradition based on cotton-growing. From…