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Bellmead is a city in McLennan County, Texas, United States. The population was 10,494 at the 2020 census. The population was 10,494 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Waco Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Neil McLennan (ca. 1777–1867), Namesake of McLennan County, Texas pioneer of Scottish birth. Patrick Morris Neff (1871–1952), Governor of Texas and President of Baylor University. Interred at Lot 149, section F. Felix Huston Robertson (1839–1928), Confederate brigadier general.
La Vega Independent School District is a public school district based in Bellmead, Texas . The district is located in central McLennan County and serves the city of Bellmead and parts of Waco. "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency. [1]
death 5 William Robert Smith: TX: 1863–1924 1917–1924 — — Wilson: death 6 Charles Albert Boynton: TX: 1867–1954 1924–1947 — 1947–1954 Coolidge: death 7 Robert Johnston McMillan: TX: 1885–1941 1932–1941 — — Hoover: death 8 Walter Angus Keeling: TX: 1873–1945 1942–1945 — — F. Roosevelt: death 9 Ben Herbert Rice Jr ...
The New Mount Carmel Center was a large group of buildings used by the Branch Davidian religious group located near Axtell, Texas, 20 miles (32 km) north-east of Waco.The Branch Davidians were established by Benjamin Roden in 1959 as a breakaway sect from Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, and was later led by David Koresh starting in the 1980s.
The 1982 Lake Waco Murders refers to the deaths of three teenagers (two females, one male) near Lake Waco in Waco, Texas, in July 1982.The police investigation and criminal trials that followed the murders lasted for more than a decade and resulted in the execution of one man, David Wayne Spence, and life prison sentences for two other men allegedly involved in the crime, Anthony and Gilbert ...
The Waco area is home to three airports. Waco Regional Airport (ACT) serves the city with daily flights to Dallas/Fort Worth International via American Eagle. TSTC Waco Airport (CNW) is the site of the former James Connally AFB and was the primary fly-in point for former President George W. Bush when he was visiting his ranch in Crawford. It ...
The airport opened May 5, 1942 as Waco Army Air Field and was the headquarters of the Army Air Force Central Instructors' School during World War II. It was deactivated after the war in 1945 but was reactivated in 1948 as a pilot training base under the Air Training Command .