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There are portions of Port Arthur in Nederland ISD, Beaumont ISD, and Hamshire-Fannett ISD. [59] In Orange County, the portions of Port Arthur are in Bridge City Independent School District. [61] The Bob Hope Charter School is located in Port Arthur. [62] It formerly had a Catholic high school, Bishop Byrne High School, which closed in 1983. [63]
On January 10, 1901, a well at Spindletop struck oil ("came in"). The Spindletop gusher blew for 9 days at a rate estimated at 100,000 barrels (16,000 m 3) of oil per day. [3] Gulf Oil and Texaco, now part of Chevron Corporation, were formed to develop production at Spindletop. [4] The Spindletop discovery led the United States into the oil age.
The boom at Spindletop was short lived. Overproduction depleted the oil and ruined many wells. By 1903, the field had begun to decline and within 10 years Spindletop Hill was virtually a ghost town. In 1926, Spindletop boomed again when new technology led to the discovery of oil on the flanks of the salt dome through deeper drilling.
Pattillo Higgins was born to Roberto James and Sarah (Raye) Higgins on December 5, 1863, in Sabine Pass, Texas.His family moved to Beaumont when he was six years old. He attended school until he reached the fourth grade, after which he apprenticed as a gunsmith under his father's direction.
Port Arthur: Jefferson Heritage of the Gulf Coast [75] Pompeiian Villa: Port Arthur Jefferson Replica of a 79 A.D Pompeiian villa . National Register of Historic Places and is a Recorded Texas historic Landmark [76] Rose Hill Manor: Port Arthur Jefferson Listed on the National Register of Historical Places [77] Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown ...
Griffing Park is an area of Port Arthur, Texas, United States, formerly a separate city in Jefferson County. It incorporated on November 13, 1929, the same year Port Arthur began its attempts to annex it. The proposed annexations were blocked by injunctions; the first was removed on November 26, 1929, and the second began in May 1930.
Texas has been the leading state in petroleum production since discovery of the Spindletop oil field in 1901. [11] As of October 2017, the State of Texas (if treated as its own nation) is the 7th largest oil producing nation in the world, with production totaling approximately 3.78 million barrels (600 thousand cubic meters ) per day of oil ...
The "golden" refers to the wealth that came from the Spindletop oil strike near Beaumont in 1901, and "triangle" refers to the area between the cities of Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange. According to the 2000 census, it had a population of 385,090 (though the 2010 census placed the population at 388,745). [2]