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History
in a Pecan Shell
In 1877, Mineral was simply a tract of land with settlers digging a water
well. When they found their well water wasn't fit to drink, they had it analyzed.
It revealed 16 different minerals in the water and the world soon beat a path
to what fast became a town. The town was known as Mineral City, and everyone
showed up wanting to soak in the waters.
A hotel, stores, churches and
a drugstore were soon built and Mineral City became a town. In 1889, they deepened
the well and the mineral content dropped dramatically.
Sometime prior
to 1895 the word "City" was dropped from Mineral City's post office name. The
hotel disappeared - probably becoming someone's private residence.
In
1890 the population was 100 people. They had a fire in 1901 and had barely recovered
when there was a flood in 1903.
In 1952 Mineral became the location of
The South Texas Children's Home, where it remains today.
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Mineral, Texas
I grew up in Mineral. The story [of the naming] was
that settlers were passing through in a wagon train and that one of the kids was
sick. They stopped and gave the child a drink from a well or spring, and the water
cured the kid of his ailment. Supposedly he had some kind of stomach worm. There
was arsenic in the water and this is what cured the child.
There were
a large amount of sheep dipping vats. There is one that is covered up on the old
Bast place where county roads meet just south of Mineral. This is what brought
it first to be a mineral spa and people came there from all over. My mother and
Audrey Fudge are two of the old timers who still live there. Mrs. Fudge was a
Wolfe originaly and her family ran the Mineral Store. My mother moved there in
1942-44 and has lived on the same hill since then. She is now 81. There are a
lot of old Mineral stories. My family and what is left of them were original settlers
and my grandfather who died about 1928 owned a confectionary and a barber shop
there. Mrs. Grady DuBose who is in the Georgewest / Oakville area, is a cousin
to my father. There are lots of stories about Halloween when they would put someone's
wagon up on a house. During the war, they turned a touring car with dates over
on one of the roads out there. Many of the paved roads were once dirt and there
are places where I rode a bicycle as a kid that are now fenced off and some of
the old roads are even gone. I can remember going all over the Yoward ranch. They
originally owned the Mineral Mercantile. - Dale DuBose, Kingsville, Texas,
June 18, 2007
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