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The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum is located in Beaumont, Texas, to commemorate the discovery of oil at the Spindletop Hill salt dome in Beaumont on Jan. 10, 1901. The discovery sparked an oil boom in Texas that continues today.
Spindletop is an oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas, in the United States. The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt evaporite layer of the Jurassic geologic period. [2] On January 10, 1901, a well at Spindletop struck oil ("came in").
The city grew from a small commercial center in 1900 to one of the largest cities in the United States during the decades following the era. This period, however, changed all of Texas' commercial centers (and developed the Beaumont/Port Arthur area, where the boom began).
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.
The museum is part of a concentration of several museums in the downtown Beaumont area. It is located adjacent to the Tyrrell Historical Library and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. The Beaumont Children's Museum is temporarily located across the street in the Beaumont Civic Center. The Edison Museum and Fire Museum of Texas are within a few ...
The Gusher Marathon is an annual spring marathon held in Beaumont, Texas. [1] It was founded in 2010 [2] by the local nonprofit organization Sports Society for American Health and sponsored by Exygon Gym and Baptist Hospitals. [3] The Gusher in Gusher Marathon refers to the 1901 discovery of oil at the spindletop salt dome in Beaumont.
Built shortly after the 1901 Spindletop oil discovery, the clubhouse provided a community cultural center with an auditorium and stage for housing educational activities, socials, banquets, dances, plays, musical concerts and art exhibits." The building was used for Red Cross fundraising and otherwise to support the World War I effort, and then ...
The Boomtown Film and Music Festival was a film and music festival held in Beaumont, Texas from 2008 to 2017: [1] [2] it was established after the Spindletop Film Festival was discontinued in 2006. [3] It was held at various businesses in Downtown Beaumont, including the Art Studio, Jefferson Theatre, Crockett Street and the Art Museum of ...