WACO (September 13, 2009)—It was 1837 when the Texas Rangers moved into an outpost on the Brazos River called Ft. Fisher and although the post was abandoned within a year, that seed eventually would grow into the city called Waco.

News 10’s look at Waco starts Monday at Café Cappuccino as chamber president Jim Vaughan joins Emily Matthews and Josh Wucher on the Morning Buzz to talk about Waco’s colorful past and bright future.

While history records the 1837 date as the beginning, the area now called Waco was inhabited as long as 10,000 years ago as skeletal remains of Paleo-Indian recovered in the area can attest.

Neil McLennan settled on the south Brazos and in short order former Texas Ranger and surveyor George B. Erath surveyed the land and laid out the first block of the town site in 1849.

The Texas Legislature organized McLennan County in 1850 and Waco Village was incorporated in 1856.

Then in 1870 the man who later would build the Brooklyn Bridge built and opened what was at the time the longest single-span suspension bridge in the United States, which allowed the free flow of commerce across the Brazos.

Now a bustling center of business, transportation and manufacturing, Waco is home to a world-class university and as well is home to the national headquarters of several national and international companies.

Join us at News 10 all week long as we celebrate Our Town Waco.