My husband and I purchased the historic Ford Home in Mineral Wells in 2024 The property was first purchased by J.G. & Abbiegill Ford in 1881 The property is outside the bounds of the Sanborn fire insurance maps until 1907. So we are unsure if there was a home or...
Dinky Cars and Doodle Bugs in Mineral Wells, Texas, were the small, gasoline-powered and electric-powered motor cars used in Mineral Wells in the early 20th Century. Dinky cars took visitors to Lakewood Park until 1909 to transport people to Lake Pinto for the Famous...
The 42 Domino Game originated in Trappe Springs (now Garner), Texas, around 1887, when two boys, William Thomas and Walter Earl, created a domino game mimicking card games like pitch to bypass religious prohibitions on cards. It became Texas’s official domino...
