Mineral Wells, TX - Mineral Rich City With Awesome History

Mineral Wells is a city in Palo Pinto and Parker Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 14,820 at the 2020 census. The city is named for mineral wells in the area, which were highly popular in the early 1900s.

[@karenvera3229]

Thanks for the great tour! Would definitely like to visit this city sometime. My former boss worked for Mineral Wells PD.

[@IMWPodcast]

You completely missed downtown. You should have stayed on Hwy 281 and you would have seen Market 76067, Merrimac & North, Bankhead Wine Bar, the Visitor’s Center (voted best in small town visitor centers last year), the Texas General Store, the newly restored Ritz Theatre sign, Witschorke’s Antiques, At Dry Creek Bakery, Happy Days Diner, the 7 story newly re-opened Crazy Water Hotel with its Second Bar & Kitchen, Rickhouse Brewing, shops & toy store, gotten to go up to the seventh floor to see the ballroom & the outdoor roof garden with views of downtown and the Baker Hotel, gotten a pressed penny, had a coffee or smoothie made with Crazy Water at the Crazy Water Coffee & Water Bar and gone a block further to see the Crazy Water Co headquarters and souvenir shop and gotten to try a flavored fizzy drink made with Crazy Fizz. Not to mention dozens of cool selfie-worthy murals. But nope, you just drove down a stretch of road with hardly any character lined with business chains seen everywhere; leaving people with the impression there’s only the not-as-of-yet re-opened Baker Hotel and the Haunted Hill House. And I guess you completely missed the GIANT green Welcome to Mineral Wells: Home of Crazy sign right across Hwy 180 one block west of 281? It’s the only commercial sign permitted by TxDot to span a Texas Highway. Come back and I’ll give you a tour and tell you the history.

[@levileavelle2446]

That’s actually not a post office. It used to be back in the day.