DFW day trips and backroad destinations
The town of Mineral Wells sits at the intersection of Texas State Highways 180 and 281. Highway 180, previously U.S. Highway 80, crosses the whole state of Texas, east to west. State Highway 281 crosses nearly the whole state north to south, running from Wichita Falls to San Antonio. Before the Interstate Highway System, Mineral [...]
The Acton State Historic Site Previously known as the smallest state park in Texas, final resting place of Elizabeth Crockett, second wife of frontiersman David (Davy) Crockett. Born in Buncon County North Carolina, May 22, 1788, she married David in 1815 at Lawrence County Tennessee, and she died on January 31, 1860 at the age [...]