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Located about 68 miles north of Austin, mostly in Coriol County, Coppous Cove, Texas began as a small ranching and cotton farming community in the 1870s.

By 1901, a variety of businesses lined the downtown streets of the quaint, rugged town,

including an opera house, general stores, a steam gristmill cotton gin, and hotels, among many others.

Marred only by the difficult and desperate era of the Great Depression,

the population of Copporus Cove slowly but steadily grew, speeding up substantially when the United States military

established the Training Center Camp Hood in nearby Bell County as a permanent fixture.

Fort Hood is located just outside Colleen, which which is just east of Coprous Cove.

A couple towns over to the west of Coprous Cove lies Lampasus.

These three cities are comprised of working-class folks by and large, though each can boast

humble agriculturally based beginnings and

quintessential picturesque early and mid-century-built country-down towns, as it approached 1990,

especially considering population, they couldn't have been more different.

Then, Colleen, at approximately 60,000 residents, was home to a large community college called Central Texas College,

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