US Highway 281

The Cowboy Capital on Texas Hwy. 281

Stephenville, TX is of South Interstate 20. The town is bisected by three major US highways. US Highway 281, US Highway 377, and US Highway 67. January 8, 2008 Stephenville gained national media attention when dozens and later hundreds of residents reported observations of UFOs. According to reports, residents observed several types of UFOs, the descriptions ranging from triangular looking craft to discs. Several residents described the crafts as the size of a football field, while others said they were nearly a mile long.

Crazy Water on Texas Highway 281.

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.

To the Gulf of Mexico on Highway 281.

Here we go, south bound on US Highway 281 Giddy Up. From the lovely Guadalupe River area of Bulverde/Spring Branch. We will be traveling the Z stretch of 281 to the toe of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

Texas Hill Country on Highway 281.

The Great State of Texas on US 281.

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