Crawford (Texas)

McLennan County

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Crawford is a city in McLennan County in the U.S. state of Texas. It is eighteen miles west of the city of Waco. Crawford was established on 12 August 1897. 2000 there lived 705 people to 2.4 km ².

Settlement of the area began in the 1850s, and it formed a village core Tonk Crossing or Crossing Crawford was called, at a ford over the Bosque River, about two miles east of the present settlement. 1867, the pub in the village was a Postkutschenastation of Brownwood Stage Line, 1871 Crwaford got its own post office. When in 1881 the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway route from Temple to Fort Worth two miles west of the city built over, the center shifted to the railway line. 1890, the place had about 400 inhabitants, who lived mainly on cotton, corn and wheat.

The city is mainly known for the Prairie Chapel Ranch, which George W. Bush belongs and where he spends his holidays and also received state guests.