Description: View from West Mountain looking ESE. Note the following landmarks: Hexagon House (1895-1959) and Chautauqua (1905- 1912). The Sangura Sprudel Well and Drinking Pavilion is below and left (one block north and one block west) of The Hexagon. The Vichy Well (Later known as The Beach and still later as the Standard Well) is right and across the street from the Hexagon at the later location of the USO building in World War II.

Description: Many property owners in early Mineral Wells had their own water wells, and the city pumped water to a small standpipe on East Mountain for distribution to the city. When the wells became insufficient to supply the city's needs, Barber Lake was built in the northeast part of town as Mineral Wells' first city water supply lake. Around 1905, Cicero Smith and Ed Dismuke built a dam across Pollard Creek west of the city to form Lake Pinto, the city's next water supply. Barber Lake can still be found southeast of Cullen Grimes School, which is a block east of N. Oak at about E 13th St.

Description: An early panoramic view of Mineral Wells. The picture is a composite of two views taken from East Mountain. Attached to the composite is a date, "1901". The large building in the front middle of the picture is the Holloway & Haley livery stable. Some of the buildings are numbered on the photo. Recognizable are: (2) The Hawthorn Well, with steeple (Right middle of the picture), (4) The original Crazy water drinking pavilion (two story with smaller upper third floor, right middle of picture), The Lythia Well (between the Crazy Well and the Hawthorn Well), and The Hexagon House - far right edge of picture.

Description: Blind Nellie was a fixture at the Austin Well for years. Col. W. R. Austin came from Kentucky to Palo Pinto County about 1880 and settled on Staggs Prairie. When an infection in his eye responded to mineral water treatment, he established the Austin Well, later operated by his son-in-law, Tom Sims. A unique method of bringing water to the surface was an added attraction at the Austin. Instead of drawing it up by hand or using a power pump, Col. Austin used a mare named Blind Nellie who was perfectly trained to walk around in circles, pulling the water up from below. She would pause long enough for the water to empty and, as if on a hidden cue, would go around again as the receptacle lowered into the well, repeating her performance accurately each time. A cowboy had ridden Blind Nellie into Mineral Wells one day and auctioned her off to the highest bidder; J. H. Coleman, who bid a dollar and a half. In later years, when she became confused in her ritual and was retired, Blind Nellie selected a place in her pasture, and during the working hours of the day she walked her circle in ...

Description: This building, located on the NW corner of NW 1st Ave. and 3rd St., was known as the Mayes Building. The upstairs rooms were known as the Carlsbad Hotel. The first edition of "Time Was in Mineral Wells", p. 105, identifies it as the Wells Hotel.