"kcorwin's new Waco Page" Waco by kcorwin

A growing pop. of about 250,000. Home to Baylor University, the "Fighting Baylor Bears", Big 12 tennis & baseball champions-2000. Home to Cameron Park Zoo, an award winning natural habitat zoo with state of the art herpetarium. Home to Texas Ranger Museum (the law enforcement rangers, not the baseball team), the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, the Dr. Pepper Museum, the Armstrong-Browning Library housing the largest collection of Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning memorabilia in the world, several historical house museums and The Art Center, displaying art by locally and nationally known artists. Other cultural choices are The Waco Symphony, the Lyric Opera of Waco, the Waco Hippodrome Theatre, a restored historical theatre offering an annual subscription season of six Broadway shows presented by nationally touring production companies, as well as the Waco Civic Theatre, Baylor Theatre & McLennan Community College productions.