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A Brief History of the East Texas Oil Field (East Texas Oil Museum) Oil and Texas: A Cultural History (Texas Almanac) Oil Boom (The Depot Museum, Henderson) Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum; Texas Energy Museum, Beaumont "Santa Rita No. 1 – Big Lake ~ Marker Number: 4587". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Commission. 1965.
The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History is a science and history museum in Corpus Christi, Texas, near Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge and the waterfront. It was established in 1957. It was established in 1957.
The port of Corpus Christi opened in 1925 after culminating efforts that began as early as 1848 to obtain a deep-water port. [6] The Port of Corpus Christi currently is the sixth largest U.S. port and deepest inshore port on the Gulf of Mexico, it handles mostly oil and agricultural products. In 2005 it was ranked as the 47th largest in the ...
This article was split from List of museums in Texas.. Briscoe-Garner Museum. The list of museums in South Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits ...
As Corpus Christi grew and experienced more fires in close quarters, local citizens advocated for a volunteer fire service. They got one in 1871. #TBT: Corpus Christi's first fire company formed ...
The event will include reenactments and other activities in honor of the veterans and other notable Corpus Christi figures ... of South Texas event is planned for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Old ...
Shell initially named all of its UK oil fields after seabirds in alphabetical order by discovery – Auk, Brent, Cormorant, Dunlin, Eider, Fulmar and so on. Brent refers to the brent goose, and in turn gave its initials to the geologic subdivisions of the Middle Jurassic-age Brent Group that make up the field: Broom, Rannoch, Etive, Ness and Tarbert formations, with each name representing a ...
The Centennial Museum was operated by the city of Corpus Christi until 1945 when its ownership was given to the South Texas Art League and the Corpus Christi Guild. At an unknown time, William G. Otto became the director of the art museum until he retired in 2006. In October 2007, Joe Schenk took his position.