Ding Dong, Texas

Ding Dong is an unincorporated community in Central Texas, United States.

The bells were reported to have been requested by Dallas newspaper columnist Frank X. Tolbert.

when travel writer Bill Bryson mentioned it in his book, Made in America and Gary Gladstone mentioned it in Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along The American Highway with a photograph of carpet salesman and fire chief Harold Rowe posing in front of his fire truck.

[2][3] The Killeen Lions Club International tried to secure Ding Dong as the site of the district convention in 1964.

Ding Dong is situated on Texas State Highway 195 along the Lampasas River, 8 mi (13 km) south of Killeen in southwestern Bell County.

Bell County map