BEAUMONT, Texas — The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop, which gave birth to the modern petroleum industry and transformed Beaumont into an oil boom town, marks its 124th anniversary on Friday. The historic ...

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 ...

Rayanna Hoeft’s face lit up like a child as she, for the first time, watched the gusher blow at the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum Monday. But that day, Hoeft wasn’t just watching the gusher ...

The name evokes an oil discovery that made history. When a well piercing the salt dome near Beaumont first gushed in 1901, it introduced a cheap supply of commercial energy that transformed the oil ...

Somewhere around 1910, a self-taught geologist named Patillo Higgins lost almost everything betting on oil near Beaumont, ...

January 10, 1901, could be the most important day in Texas history. At about ten-thirty that morning, on a low hill four miles south of Beaumont called Sour Springs Mound, the oil well known as ...

As the global pandemic wanes and stir-crazy travelers again flock to Southeast Texas landmarks, the Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown is poised for a resurgence of visitors wanting a glimpse of the ...

Gladys City thrived as long as the oil from Spindletop flowed and until the oil companies moved to neighboring Beaumont. The re-creation of the historic clapboard boomtown gives a fair representation ...