Mineral Wells

Once a highway, now a city street

A well-trafficked and prominent east-west thoroughfare in Mineral Wells is an anomaly in Texas’ colossal highway inventory — and a throwback to an earlier age of roadbuilding in the Lone Star State. MH 379 is one of the last visible vestiges of a program by the Texas Department of Transportation that, in its modern form, is actually quite widespread.

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