Too Public for Girls

ID: 1607 ~ Source: Kee, Grace Hasseltine Jenkins, interviewed by Margaret Miller, April 15, 1980, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Grace Hasseltine Jenkins Kee speaks of the Waco Natatorium but explains that she did not go there very often as a young woman.

This file appears in: Waco Natatorium

By Sarah Miller
Believed to have curative qualities, water from Waco’s artesian wells were popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Locals considered the discovery of the artesian water in 1889 one of the most important events in Waco up to…