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Killeen / Annette S. Lucksinger and Gerald D. Skidmore, Sr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucksinger, Annette S., Author.
- Skidmore, Gerald D., Author.
- Series:
- Images of America.
- Images of America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Killeen (Tex.)--Biography--Pictorial works.
- Killeen (Tex.).
- Killeen (Tex.)--History--Pictorial works.
- Killeen (Tex.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations, portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2013]
- Summary:
- The story of Killeen is aptly called "a tale of two cities." Killeen was founded on May 15, 1882, when the first Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company (GC&SF) locomotive arrived from east Bell County. The original town contained 360 acres purchased from Susan Spofford for $960. GC&SF honored its assistant general manager, Frank Patrick Killeen, by naming the new town for him, although he probably never visited his namesake. During its first 60 years, Killeen developed into a busy agricultural center specializing in cotton and wool. It remained a town of approximately 1,200 until 1942, when a tank destroyer center was opened nearby and became Killeen's close neighbor--physically, economically, and socially--displacing farms and ranches and converting the town from an agricultural to a military-based economy. That conversion and Killeen's boomtown future were sealed in 1950, when Camp Hood, the tank destroyer center named for Confederate general John Bell Hood, became a permanent military installation and was renamed Fort Hood.
- Contents:
- Uncharted frontier : hardy souls endure early history
- Lively beginnings : the railroad creates a town (1882)
- Killeen's development : photographs record progress
- Education : Killeen prizes schools, one room to major university
- Global Killeen : Fort Hood brings diversity and change
- Celebrated residents and visitors : special peolpe brighten Killeen history
- Memorable occasions : happy or tragic, Killeen remembers
- Further expansion : Killeen continues to make history.
- OCLC:
- 883238943
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