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Fantastical History of Waco is full of fabulous tales of dubious veracity about our city of Waco, Texas written by Ashley Bean Thornton.
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Electric Slide
From the mind of Ashley Bean Thornton and the actors of Wild Imaginings comes Fantastical History of Waco!
1910 to 1920 were years of turmoil in Mexico. Revolutionaries fought to overthrow the regime of Porfirio Diaz and then fought among themselves to establish a new government. Thousands of Mexicans immigrated to Texas fleeing the war. Most of the immigrants had almost no money and often had no choice but to settle in what some would call disreputable neighborhoods. And a great many of these immigrants found themselves in none other than little Waco-town. In Waco, the so-called disreputable neighborhood where they ended up settling was the neighborhood between Second Street and the Brazos River. Once known as “The Reservation” or “Two Street,” it was the former location of Waco’s notorious legalized red-light district.
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A Doctor's Secret
Hallie Earle was born in Waco in the year 1880. She was the eighth and last child of Civil War veteran Major Isham Harrison Earle, and as is often the case with the youngest child, she was her parent's pride and joy.
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Pipe Smoking and Crickets
Shapley Prince Ross, his wife Catherine, and their seven children were some of the first settlers to move to Waco Village in March of 1849. And with the Shapley Ross family came Armstead Ross and his wife Lucindy.
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Escargot
On March 11, 1889, Joseph Daniel Bell and his crew drilled into a rock formation in South Waco and sent a geyser of hot water spewing into the clear, blue Central Texas sky. (geyser) This gusher helped turn Waco, Texas, into a popular tourist destination for the next 20 years. You see, a “hydrotherapy” craze was sweeping the nation. It was believed that hot water from deep underground carried minerals that could miraculously cure all manner of ills. Ardent adherents claimed it could cure anything, from upset stomach to heart disease, to mental illness.
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A Bridge of Turtles
After the Civil War, Texas fell upon hard economic times. People everywhere were trying to figure out a way to make ends meet. Some made these ends meet in peculiar ways.
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A Cavalry of Bears
From the mind of Ashley Bean Thornton and the actors of Wild Imaginings comes Fantastical History of Waco!
One of the things that the city of Waco is most known for is none other than Baylor University. Founded in 1845, the university oddly enough didn’t have an official mascot for almost 70 years after its founding. Several possible mascots were suggested, but the issue was hotly debated among students, faculty, and funders.
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