That need was answered on Jan. 10, 1901 — 125 years ago Saturday — when a seemingly futile search for oil atop an underground salt dome in east Texas resulted in the gushing well you see here. The ...
BEAUMONT, Texas — After a well at Spindletop in Beaumont struck oil on Jan. 10, 1901, the birth of the modern petroleum industry came to be. Now 123 years later, the Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown ...
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