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City Of Bellmead
City History:
Located on State Highway 31 two miles northeast of Waco in east central McLennan County. The community began in the mid-1920s, when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad chose the site for its locomotive shops. The first school was called Bellmead in honor of Belle Meade Farms, a prominent horse farm in Tennessee. In 1942 Waco Army Air Field (later called James Connally Air Force Base) opened just northeast of town. The population was reported at twenty-five in the early 1940s, but it increased rapidly after World War II and was reincorporated in 1954 with a mayor-alderman government. By 1960 Bellmead had 5,127 residents and eighty-five businesses. When the air force base was closed in 1965 Texas A&M University established the James Connally Technical Institute at the facility. As of 2000 the population was 9,214 and growing.
Located on State Highway 31 two miles northeast of Waco in east central McLennan County. The community began in the mid-1920s, when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad chose the site for its locomotive shops. The first school was called Bellmead in honor of Belle Meade Farms, a prominent horse farm in Tennessee. In 1942 Waco Army Air Field (later called James Connally Air Force Base) opened just northeast of town. The population was reported at twenty-five in the early 1940s, but it increased rapidly after World War II and was reincorporated in 1954 with a mayor-alderman government. By 1960 Bellmead had 5,127 residents and eighty-five businesses. When the air force base was closed in 1965 Texas A&M University established the James Connally Technical Institute at the facility. As of 2000 the population was 9,214 and growing.