Waco, Texas Register of Historic Places. In the late 19th century, a red-light district called the "Reservation" grew up in Waco, and prostitution was regulated by the city. The Reservation was suppressed in the early 20th century. In 1885, the soft drink Dr Pepper was invented in Waco at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store. In 1845, Baylor University was founded in Independence, Texas. It moved to Waco in 1886 and merged with Waco University, becoming an integral part of the city. The university's Strecker Museum was also the oldest continuously operating museum in the state until it closed in 2003, and the
Waco CRG bearing his name. The CRG flown by Livingston, NC600Y, still survives today and has been owned by the Heins family for 54 years (2016). The CRG NC660Y flown by Davis ended its flying career as a cropduster in Greenville, Mississippi in 1938. Waco CRG NC600Y was re-engined in 1939 with a Wright R-760E-2 powerplant of and was used by Andy Stinis, of the Skywriting Corporation of America, for skywriting at high altitude as the original Pepsi-Cola Skywriter. Waco CRG The Waco G series is an American open-cockpit sporting biplane of the early 1930s. The Waco G series was designed specifically