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Palo Pinto County

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Palo Pinto County, Texas, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, land grants, and roads. No scale information given.
Date: 1856
Creator: Martin, Jos.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Palo Pinto County

Description: Map of Palo Pinto County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. The roads from Fort Belknap to Fort Graham and from Fort Belknap to Fort Worth are indicated on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: December 6, 1856
Creator: Martin, Joseph
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Map of Palo Pinto County

Description: Cadastral map of Palo Pinto County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Some borders and features are shaded in color; the southern line of Peter's Colony is noted on the map. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date: September 26, 1859
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Palo Pinto County, Texas

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Palo Pinto County, Texas, showing names of surveys, numbered lots, rivers, towns, and roads. A diagram and scale information of a section is included in the upper-left corner of the map. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil to label specific tracts of land. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1870
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Palo Pinto County, Texas

Description: Map shows land tracts and patents, railroad lines, towns, and the Brazos River; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits; block and tract numbers. Scale [ca. 1:133,334].
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Palo Pinto County

Description: Map of Palo Pinto County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: June 1879
Creator: Blau, F. G.
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

[Mineral Wells Vacation]

Description: 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~
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Partner: Longview Public Library

[An Early Bird's-Eye-View of Mineral Wells]

Description: 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 Fir… more
Date: 1882?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[An Early Panoramic View of Mineral Wells, Texas: 1882]

Description: 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 distri… more
Date: 1882?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[The Golens Livery Stable]

Description: 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… more
Date: 1882?/1897?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[The Middle Panel of the Oldest Known Panorama of Mineral Wells]

Description: 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 build… more
Date: 1882?
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Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Automatic Fan Combination Stand.

Description: 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
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Crazy Well, Mineral Wells, Texas

Description: 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 i… more
Date: 1885
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[In Front of the Schoolhouse, ca. 1885]

Description: 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 buil… more
Date: 1885
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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