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[Mineral Wells Vacation]
Photograph of a morning donkey ride during a vacation at Mineral Wells, Texas. Five women and three men are pictured riding donkeys. Mineral Wells was a popular vacation spot for residents of Longview, Texas.
Date:
1880~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crazy Well, Mineral Wells, Texas
This is a picture of the first Crazy Well drinking pavilion, the first such facility in the city. When a Mr. Wiggins dug the third well in town, it was frequented by a "crazy woman" who was eventually cured of her dementia. Because of the word-of-mouth publicity, people came from miles around to drink the health-giving water. A house was built around the well for the convenience of the customers. The highly successful business attracted competition, and one of the most popular health spas in the nation grew from these beginnings.
Date:
1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[An Early Bird's-Eye-View of Mineral Wells]
A very early panoramic view of Mineral Wells (taken around 1882) from East Mountain and looking southwest is illustrated here. Locations identified by numbers are: 1: Judge Lynch's cabin, now Lynch Plaza at S. Oak Avenue and E. Hubbard Street; 2: The Mesquite Street well, middle of NE 1st Avenue (the second well in town, now [2008] abandoned); 3:The current center of downtown Mineral Wells, showing the intersection of Oak Avenue (US 281) and Hubbard Street (US Highway 180); 4: The current Fire and Police Departments; 5: S. Oak Avenue; 6: The Southern House Hotel; 7: The present "Business District", NE 1st Avenue; and 8: N. Oak Avenue (a residential area at the time.)
Date:
1882?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[An Early Panoramic View of Mineral Wells, Texas: 1882]
This photograph is an early panoramic view of Mineral Wells (taken approximately in 1882) from East Mountain, looking Southwest. Numbers on the photograph represent specific locations: 1. Judge Lynch's cabin, location of the first mineral water well; 2. N E 1st Avenue (second water well dug); 3. Oak Avenue and Hubbard Street; 4. Present location of the Fire and Police Station; 5. South Oak Avenue; 6. The Commercial Hotel (present location of the Gas Co.) 7. NE 1st Avenue business district; 8. North Oak Avenue. Note: The picture identifies number 6 as "The Commercial Hotel", but that hotel has been determined to have been located on South Oak Avenue. The hotel shown in the picture was the Early-Southern Hotel, which an 1893 guidebook clearly states was on Hubbard Street. The guidebook goes on to give the hotel's further location as "[O]n the same block with the post-office [sic] and three blocks from the depot." A Mr. Early is named as the proprietor.
Date:
1882?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Middle Panel of the Oldest Known Panorama of Mineral Wells]
Shown here is the middle photograph of three that are arranged on pages 40 and 41 of A. F. Weaver's book, "TIME WAS In Mineral Wells", to create the "Earliest known panoramic view of Mineral Wells around 1882." It was taken from East Mountain looking to the southwest. The photograph includes the center of today's [2008] downtown Mineral Wells. A large white two-story building is shown at the left center of the picture on West Hubbard Street, at the site of the (later) Southern Hotel. The building at the far left edge of the picture occupies on the site of the current Mineral Wells Fire and Police Departments in the 200 block of South Oak Avenue.
Date:
1882?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Golens Livery Stable]
This picture, labeled on the back as "Golens Livery Stable", shows a wagon, three hacks and a buggy, each pulled by a two-horse team. The hack on the left (the white horse on the right of the team) has a "Green's Transfer" sign on it. The hack in the middle has a passenger and the one on the right has three. The man in the foreground is likely the livery stable's owner. An assistant is visible in the stable doorway. Hacks and buggies were typical of the transportation that Mineral Wells hotels sent to Millsap to meet every passenger train on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, from the time the T&P came through Palo Pinto County in 1882 until the Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern Railroad began service between Weatherford and Mineral Wells on January 1, 1897.
Date:
1882?/1897?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[In Front of the Schoolhouse, ca. 1885]
The back of this photograph shows three notes: 1: "Taken in front of school house about 1885." (This photograph appears to be of the students and teachers of Mineral Wells' first public school, the "Little Rock Schoolhouse," built in 1884.) 2: "Donated by James H. Perry", and 3: "Some are dead. Some are married, and we are all scattered, never to meet on earth again." The school illustrated here was built in 1886, and a Mr. R.E. Hendry took up teaching duties--after he was almost single-handed in having the building set up. Land was procured in 1884, and stones from Rock Creek were provided, and cut at the construction site to make Mineral Wells' first permanent school building. It was a band hall, a choral hall, a gymnasium, and a storage place after it was a school. It now is the home of the Mineral Wells Heritage Society.
Date:
1885
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fan Combination Stand.
Patent for a new and improved automatic-fan combination-stand. This design "relates to an improved stand or support for an automatic fan, which said stand shall be portable, so as to be conveniently set up wherever desired, and which shall contain various hooks, brackets, shelves, and other conveniences" (lines 17-22).
Date:
November 28, 1882
Creator:
McKeehan, Charles Houston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1632: Fendrick, Francis (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Fendrick, Francis (died December 11, 1893) and M.E. Fendrick (Executor or Guardian). Died in Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Texas.
Date:
1884-09-19/1894-07-02
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 28, 1885
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, July 10, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 10, 1885
Creator:
Lowry, James A. & Neely, S. L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 14, 1885
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, June 12, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 12, 1885
Creator:
Lowry, James A. & Neely, S. L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 21, 1885
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 1887
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 10, 1887
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 1887
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 11, 1887
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1887
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 28, 1887
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1887
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 8, 1887
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, July 8, 1887
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 8, 1887
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, January 8, 1886
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 8, 1886
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1886
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 5, 1886
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 3, 1888
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 3, 1888
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1886
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 5, 1886
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1886
Weekly newspaper from Abilene, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 19, 1886
Creator:
Lowry, James A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History