When Spindletop blew open, sending columns of oil gushing 150 feet into the air over Beaumont for nine days, it ushered in a new age for Texas and the world. The economic boom that ensued made ...

Spindletop Rotary Club reportedly donated over 500 books to students of all grade levels at Blanchette Elementary School for their school’s annual book fair.

People started investing an estimated $235 million in oil in Texas, and although some were successful, others were not. All-white shack towns, such as Guffey, were created near Spindletop.

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 ...

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How did Spindletop shape Houston and Southeast Texas? By the time the boom died down in 1903, Southeast Texas was already transformed. Tens of thousands of speculators wanting a piece of the pie ...