WACO COUNTRY CLUB, CAMERON PARK CLUBHOUSE AND STURGIS ROAD
WACO COUNTRY CLUB, CAMERON PARK CLUBHOUSE AND STURGIS ROAD What we know as the “Cameron Park Clubhouse” was built in 1902 as a private country club and was known as “Waco Country Club”. The Cameron Family added it to Cameron Park in 1920. In what is now “Anniversary Park” there once stood a beautiful home…
TEXAS COTTON PALACE CORNERSTONE
TEXAS COTTON PALACE CORNERSTONE This cornerstone was originally on the Main Building at The Texas Cotton Palace, but was moved to Cameron Park, shown here. This photo is from Lavonia Jenkins Barnes’ 1964 book “The Texas Cotton Palace.” The caption under the photo says, “Albert T. Clifton, President of the Cotton Palace in 1910-1911, who…
The Old Library
When the HEB Building was built at 18th and Austin in 1951, the Waco Public Library was in the old Cameron home across Austin Avenue. It was like this until the Cameron Home was torn down in 1960 for the construction of the current Waco- McLennan County Library, which opened in 1962. The photo of…
Waco, Texas History in Pictures 