Waco
a city and county-seat of the Bosque and Brazos rivers, and on contains State and Federal court houses, Baylor University (Bapt.); the Academy of the Sacred Heart (R. C.), the Paul WADAI Quinn College (A. M. E.), United States Government building, public library, National, State, and private banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers.
Here also are waterworks, gas and electric lights, street railroads, etc.
Waco is the chief interior cotton entrepôt of Texas. It has flour mills, foundries, and manufactories of cotton and woolen goods, ice, lumber, iron, brass, and various other articles. Pop. (1910) 26,425; (1920) 38,500.