Waco’s Evangelia Settlement gets state historical marker
That marker says Evangelia Settlement was established “as part of a larger progressive social movement from the late 1800s” directed at the less fortunate. Two Waco women, Ethel Dickson and Nell Symes, founded the settlement in 1908 to support children whose parents worked at Slayden-Kirksey Woolen Mills.
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Charley Johns, the committee’s architect (center).
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