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 ...

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 ...

For the first time in almost nine months, on Monday morning the replica of the Lucas Gusher at the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum rocketed water through the iconic derrick — celebrating a ...

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 ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money helped Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown renovate and restore their museum on the campus of Lamar University. Construction lasted for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...