Mapping Out Renewal

ID: 550 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

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This 1970s-era Waco Urban Renewal Agency map shows an inexact representation of where the former neighborhood once stood. The area of the Sandtown included the space north of First Street (now University Parks Drive) up to the Brazos River, located inside the individual sections called Riverside and Clay Avenue Areas.

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Sandtown Neighborhood

By Michael Woodward

Sandtown was a vibrant and predominately Mexican American neighborhood that was active from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1960s. It encompassed the area of downtown Waco between Third Street and the Brazos River, and the seven blocks…