James Alvis Lynch, Founder of Mineral Wells Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title James Alvis Lynch, Founder of Mineral Wells

Date

  • Creation: 1907?
  • Digitized: 2006

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This is a photograph of James Alvis Lynch, who founded Mineral Wells in 1881, is wearing a suit, sitting on a donkey, and holding a bottle of mineral water on an unknown rocky hill.

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: People - Individuals
  • Keyword: Lynch, J. A.
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Domestic Animals - Donkeys

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
  • Time Period: cat-bom

Collection

  • Name: A. F. Weaver Collection
    Code: AFWC

Institution

  • Name: Boyce Ditto Public Library
    Code: BDPL

Rights

  • Rights Access: public

Resource Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: AWO_0970N
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth16136

Note

  • Digital Preservation: creationAppName: Adobe Photoshop creationAppVersion: 7 creationHardware: Epson Perfection 4990 Photo
  • Display Note: James Alvis Lynch discovered the mineral-laden water while searching for a source of water for his Millsap Valley farm. He dug a well, in 1878, to forty-one feet that was dry. The family continued to haul water from the Brazos River until 1880, when a man named Johnny D. Adams came through the county with a water-well drilling outfit. Mr. Lynch traded a pair of oxen for him to drill a well, the first to supply water in the community. His son, C. C., was the first to taste the "funny-tasting water." Mrs. Lynch, however, drank the water, and in time, she was no longer bothered by the rheumatism that had plagued her. Other wells were soon drilled, and other "miracle" cures were reported. People flocked to the healing waters from near and far. Mr. Lynch subdivided his property and laid out the town of Mineral Wells the following year, 1881.
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