Belton

Listen closely and you can still hear the faint echo of hoofbeats from the cattle that were herded along the Belton section of the Chisholm Trail by rugged wranglers back in the 1800’s. Over a century later, that independent cowboy spirit is still alive and well and on display in the central Texas community as …

Built on the Leon River and Nolan Creek, this town once named Nolanville was a place where merchants sold goods from wagons and tin cups of whiskey from barrels. Today, Belton is best known as the home of the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor. The Baptist college began here over a century ago and was once …