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 ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A Southeast Texas blacksmith is demonstrating a centuries-old craft at the Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum, showing visitors how metalworkers shaped tools essential to the ...

Let's travel back to a Houston culinary landscape when gents wore ties to restaurants and ladies rightly expected their dining chairs to be pulled out for them. A time before mesclun greens, truffle ...

From the storied King Ranch near the Mexican border to the 1901 Spindletop well in East Texas — the most famous gusher of all time — oil companies are returning to their old stomping grounds in search ...

In his reckless youth, Pattillo Higgins shot up an African-American church and killed a sheriff's deputy. Later in life, after finding Jesus, he married his adopted teenage daughter. In between, the ...

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 ...

BEAUMONT -- The once-familiar ground-trembling rumble, followed by the ear-shattering roar of an erupting oil gusher will shake Spindletop again Wednesday morning just as it did exactly a century ago ...

BEAUMONT -- Everything changed that Jan. 10 morning a century ago when a geyser of oil erupted on the low hill south of Beaumont called Spindletop. Oil had been discovered in Texas decades earlier, ...

Spindletop Center put a heavy emphasis on the fun at this year’s annual IDD Fun Day event, held on the grounds of its North Campus in Beaumont. It had all the trappings of a neighborhood block party, ...

At 10:30 on the morning of Jan. 10, 1901, on a low hillock called Spindletop just outside Beaumont, Texas, gas rumbled out of its prehistoric tomb, shot up a black plume of petroleum and launched the ...

Spindletop Oil & Gas Co. an independent oil and gas company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas in Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, ...

The Spindletop Rotary Club is helping young readers expand their literary horizons with a generous donation to Blanchette ...