Description: a street scene of N.E. 1st Ave. The stone building on the left is the "Yeager Building" which once housed the Lion Drugstore. At the time of the photograph, it housed the Baker Medical Supply. A handwritten date on the back of the photograph states "1993." In 2007, the coffee shop "H2Jo" is located in this building. The next building up the street was once the Hub Tailors, and the large three- story building farther up the street is the Western Auto Store. At the end of the street is the Old Post Office, which currently houses the Women's Club.

Description: Mineral Wells, Texas 1881. Copyright by A. F. Weaver. This is the earliest picture of Mineral Wells available. It was mailed to A.F. Weaver by a woman in Colorado in 2004 who found it in her great-grandfather's belongings. He was a world traveler and spent only a short time in Mineral Wells. The photo was obtained too late to include in the last edition (the mini edition) of TIME WAS. James Alvis Lynch and his family arrived in Millsap Valley Dec. 24, 1877. In 1878 he dug a well to 41 ft., but it was dry. In 1880 he contracted to have a well drilled, and it encountered mineral water. The purported healing qualities of the water brought health-seekers by the thousands. In 1881, Lynch laid out the city of Mineral Wells on his 80-acre farm. The unidentified lines of white objects in the upper background are a mystery, but are probably tents. H.M. Berry, an early resident, and Mineral Wells' first schoool teacher, wrote in 1921, " . . .by the first of October (1881) it looked like a small army was camped here, tents were everywhere." The Lynch cabins, site of the mineral water discovery well, is in ...

Description: The Weatherford Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railroad's first train arrived in Mineral Wells January 1, 1891. This depot was built in 1900 to replace an earlier wooden depot that burned. Shortly after the new depot was completed, the Texas & Pacific Railway bought out the WMW&NW. The rail line had a colorful history, operating through World War II and into the 1990s. Construction of an extension of the line to Graford begun in 1907, was completed to Oran that year and on to Graford the following January. In 1912 "Doodlebug" motor coaches (200 HP, 70 ft. long, gasoline powered self contained passenger cars) provided service between Mineral Wells, Weatherford, Fort Worth and Dallas until 1928. A round trip took less than six hours and two "Doodlebugs" provided service each way every three hours. In 1913, the Gulf Texas and Western Railroad, building south from Seymour, TX, began operations over the WMW&NW line from Salesville to Mineral Wells, thus connecting Seymour, Olney, Jacksboro, Graford, Oran, Salesville, Mineral Wells, and Weatherford with daily round-trip service to Dallas. The City of Mineral Wells bought the 22.8 miles of track to Weatherford October 1, 1989, and was the last operator, keeping the road open ...