East Side
The East Side, to the north and on the other side of the Brazos River, is a historically African-American side. There are four sectors in the East Side. They are:
- Carver
- East Riverside
- Timbercrest
- Ignorant Holler
An oft-overlooked portion of East Waco is the Ignorant Holler section. Composed of the area roughly within the Brazos River on the south, Hwy 6 & 77/81 to the East, Interstate 35 on its West, and East Webster Avenue to the North. During the Great Depression years and up into the 1950's, this area was home to the Nally Elementary School, Spring Street Baptist Church, a general store at the intersection of Orchard Lane and Calhoun Street that was still in operation in 2012. Among the residents of Ignorant Holler, there have been one Congressional Medal of Honor winner, three Purple Hearts, two Bronze Stars, one Navy Cross, and one former resident who was executed at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Local civic leader and retired educator, Robert Hawkins, was born and reared in Ignorant Holler and lives in nearby Bellmead, Texas; he was inducted into the Texas AFL-CIO Labor Hall of Fame in 2011.
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