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    The Washington Avenue Bridge in Waco, Texas was built in 1902 and was then the longest single-span vehicular truss bridge in Texas. It has a 450-foot (140 m)...
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  • Bridge (Minneapolis), a bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, over the Mississippi River Washington Avenue Bridge (Waco, Texas), a bridge listed on the NRHP in...
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    Jesse Washington was a seventeen-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became...
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    Waco (/ˈweɪkoʊ/ WAY-koh) is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway...
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  • Bridge, Melmont First Avenue South Bridge, Seattle Fred G. Redmon Bridge, Yakima Fremont Bridge, Seattle George Washington Memorial Bridge, Seattle Glenn L...
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  • Thumbnail for Interstate 35 in Texas
    Along its route, it passes through the cities of San Antonio, Austin, and Waco before splitting into two branch routes just north of Hillsboro: I-35E heads...
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    Abilene, Waco and Palestine. The highway exits Texas into Louisiana near Joaquin, crossing the Toledo Bend Reservoir. US 84 enters into Texas at Farwell...
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    Doris Miller (category Military personnel from Waco, Texas)
    scheduled to be laid down in 2026 and launched in 2029. Miller was born in Waco, Texas, on October 12, 1919, to Connery and Henrietta Miller. He was named Doris...
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    brother, Wallace, at 2103 Proctor Avenue in Waco, Texas. Harry William, who was then known as Harry, attended Waco High School, where he was active in...
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    Dallas (redirect from Dallas, Texas/Draft)
    historically black college in southeast Dallas. Originally located in Waco, Texas, it moved to Dallas in 1990 and is housed on the campus of the former...
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    and Waco also frequenting the area. The first European settlers in the present-day Austin were a group of Spanish friars who arrived from East Texas in...
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    Ann Richards (category Politicians from Waco, Texas)
    She grew up in Waco, participated in Girls State. Girls State is a mock-government assembly. She also was the Texas delegate in Washington, D.C. at the...
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    the bridges over Bryan Street and Ross Avenue, the latter the location of the opening ceremonies in 1949. Because of their location, these two bridges were...
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    a branch of State Highway 2 (SH 2, the Meridian Highway), which ran via Waco and Bryan and continued on to Galveston. The more direct route followed by...
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    State Highway 7 (SH 7) is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of Texas that runs from Interstate 35 at Eddy to U.S. Highway 84 about 3 miles (4...
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  • Drive to US 84 was given to the city of Waco. This section is now 19th Street, 18th Street, Lyle Avenue/Herring Avenue, and 4th Street/5th Street. Junction...
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    Robert Summers (artist) (category People from Cleburne, Texas)
    well. It is displayed at Indian Springs Park, in Waco, Texas in front of the Waco Suspension Bridge, which was a key spot for cattle drivers to cross...
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  • designated on June 11, 1945, from SH 87 (now SH 73, SH 87, and Texas Avenue) in Bridge City, west along Roundbunch Road, and then along its current routing...
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    U.S. Route 84 (section Texas)
    the George W. Bush Parkway. US 84 then crosses into Waco, going past the downtown area along Waco Drive and then northeast into the suburb of Bellmead...
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    comes back to I-10 near the Sabine River Bridge over the Sabine River. At the river, I-10 finally leaves Texas and crosses into Louisiana. I-10 replaced...
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  • from Wichita Falls southeast to Fort Worth. The route then split in two at Waco, with one branch travelling southwest through Austin and San Antonio before...
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    Interstate 35 in Minnesota (category Transportation in Washington County, Minnesota)
    "Interstate 35 dramatically changed Waco's face". Waco Tribune-Herald. Retrieved November 23, 2014 – via Waco History Project. "Table 1: Main Routes...
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    Second Avenue corridor of South Dallas. The new freeway's namesake, Charles (C.F.) Hawn, was a businessman from Athens who served on the Texas Highway...
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  • Farm to Market Roads in Texas are owned and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Farm to Market Road 3000 (FM 3000) is located...
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  • Austin. Loop 2 is located in Waco. It runs from I-35 to US 84. Loop 2 was designated on September 26, 1939, from US 81 though Waco to another point on US 81...
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    Cleburne, Denison, Corsicana, and Waco. The line depicted in the associated image was the second to be constructed in Texas and ran 35 miles between Fort...
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    Route 190 (US 190) is an east–west United States Highway in Louisiana and Texas. Segments of US 190 will be upgraded to Interstate 14 (I-14); the first...
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    School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, north of Rosenberg. The school is part of the Lamar Consolidated...
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    Ratliff, Harold (1963). Autumn's Mightiest Legions: History of Texas Schoolboy Football. Waco: Texian Press. pp. 101–102. "Dallas Highland Park Head Coach...
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    connected by a branch of SH 2 (SH 2, the Meridian Highway), which ran via Waco and Bryan and continued on to Galveston. The more direct route followed by...
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