Souvenir Postcard (1916)

ID: 985 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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Souvenir Postcard (1916)

In 1900, no businesses existed west of Eighth Street on Austin Avenue. The construction of the church represented one of the first positive contributions to the rapid development of Austin Avenue in the boom period of the early twentieth century.

This file appears in: Austin Avenue United Methodist Church

By Prisca Bird
As one of the first churches built west of Eighth Street, Austin Avenue United Methodist Church has been a center of spiritual growth and community outreach for over one hundred years.  Having decided that the congregation at Waco’s Fifth Street…