KILLEEN

Population 61,094

Altitude 833

General

Edged by 217,000 acre Fort Hood. Named for civil engineer of Santa Fe Railroad that built across the county in 1882. The largest city in Bell County; home of Central Texas College, University of Central Texas. Visitor information is available at the chamber of commerce in restored Santa Fe depot. 1 Santa Fe Plaza.

Community theater productions are held throughout the year at the Center for the Arts, sponsored by Vive Les Arts Societe'.

Killeen lies on U.S. 190, a segment of the Ports to Plains Highway connecting the state's heartland to coastal ports.

Attractions

• FORT HOOD - Covering 339 square miles of Central Texas the modern Army Post is staffed with the largest collection of soldiers and fighting machines in the free world.-the only two division post in the nation. Home of the Army's III corps, 1st Cavalry and 2nd Armored Divisions. Visitors are welcome at two museums on the post. The 1st Cavalry Division Museum exhibits more than 150 years of cavalry uniforms, equipment, arms from sabers to assault helicopters; emphasis on division combat during World War II, in Korea, and in Vietnam. Artillery, tanks, trucks, and captured foreign weapons; at Building 2218 on Headquarters Ave. The 2nd Armored Division Museum features unit history from 1940 to today; World War II action in North Africa, Sicily and Europe.; General Patton's overcoat, Sherman and Patton tanks, combat photos, dioramas of street fighting in France; captured enemy weapons. Building 418 on Battalion Avenue.

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