Bellmead Candidates

ID: 1581 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Bill Miller
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Bellmead Candidates

Candidates for Bellmead’s first municipal election posed for a photograph after the incorporation of the city in late 1952. Just over one year later, in 1954, citizens voted to reincorporate under a mayor-alderman system of government.

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By Charles Olson & Amanda Sawyer
The roots of Bellmead grew out of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company (M-K-T). In June of 1910, M-K-T purchased 90 percent of the Texas Central Railway, a line of tracks running 268 miles from Waco to Rotan. Because of Waco’s central location…