Wildflowers

ID: 2787 ~ Source: Gwyn, Herbert. [Photograph of Grave at First Street Cemetery], photograph, 1910~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth573349/: accessed July 2, 2021), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Private Collection of T. B. Willis. Fair Use.
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Wildflowers

Taken around 1910, this picture shows overgrown flowers covering a gravesite at First Street Cemetery. Minimal maintenance allowed plants to obscure headstones that marked the space as a burial ground.

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By Regina Wenger
Few sites in Waco capture the richness and complexity of the city’s history better than First Street Cemetery. The city’s oldest resting place, it holds the remains of many of Waco’s prominent early residents. However, its caretaking and development…