Mineral Wells, Texas (16,880), on Hwy 281, intersecting with the east/west Highway 180. West of Ft. Worth, North of the intersection of U.S. Highway 281 and Interstate 20. This north Texas town is an area of about twenty square miles.
Around 1880 a local North Texas man dug a well that produced a foul tasting water. This enterprising Texan declared that this "Crazy Water" had cured his rheumatism. Soon there after "Crazy Water" was being touted as a cure for numerous ailments from sore muscles to hysteria. The area was billed as the greatest health resort of the South by 1920 with over four hundred mineral wells.
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Russell, Kansas. A population of less than 5.000. This Kansas community is just north of Interstate 70, a east - west route as it intersects Highway 281 here. Thirty five miles north of Great Bend also on U.S. Highway 281. The county incorporated in 1872. The economy of Russell County is primarily agriculture.
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