East Texas Oil Museum
Welcome to the East Texas Oil Museum, located on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas. easttexasoilmuseum.com. This fascinating museum houses the authentic re-creation of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries. Here, visitors see the people, their towns, their personal habits, their tools and their pastimes -- all colorfully depicted in dioramas, movies, sound presentations and actual antiques donated by East Texas citizens.
Step across the city limits into Boomtown, USA, --a full scaletown full of stores, people, animals, and machinery depicting the lively activity of a town booming in oil.
Stop in at the general store and browse the shelves. Take the children to the drugstore for refreshment and have their picture taken with a wildcatter while mom and pop dance to vintage 1930's big bands on the jukebox. Don't get your feet dirty on those rutted streets walking to the newspaper office for a Boomtown paper. As you pass the barbershop listen carefully for rumors of a new gusher, then pump your own gas outside the gas station. And make sure to go inside and see the movie on drilling an oil well.
Remember the afternoons at the movies? A visit to the theater brings back actual historical footage of the boom period while you sense a blowout gusher. Your visit is not complete without a trip to Boomtown's museum. Study the geographical exhibits and take the elevator ride to the center of the earth. Let your guides take you 3,800 feet below the earth's surface to where oil deposits lie. It's fun and informative.
East Texas Oil Museum in Kilgore
Focus On Kilgore - East Texas Oil Museum 12/07/2017
Focus On Kilgore show host Manny Almanza visits with Merlyn Holmes, Director of the East Texas Oil Museum in Kilgore, TX. on December 7, 2017.
Texas State Railroad & East Texas Oil Museum
Reporter Brian Mylar and I on a series of features.
Texas State Railroad & East Texas Oil Museum
PROUD OF EAST TEXAS BROADCAST MUSEUM IN KILGORE,TEXAS
KLTV CHANNEL 7'S JOAN HALLMARK PROUD OF EAST TEXAS FEATURE ON BROADCAST MUSEUM IN KILGORE,TEXAS. AIR DATE 2-10-2018. SHOT AND EDITED BY VIDEOJOURNALIST KENDRICK HENDERSON
Tashara Travels: East Texas Oil Museum
On this edition of Tashara Travels, we take you back in time to the early 1930's in Kilgore. It was there that one lucky oil prospector struck black gold and turned the town's fortunes around almost overnight.
East Texas Oil Museum
East Texas Oil Museum
Lighting of the Oil Derricks : vlog 2
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East Texas Oil Museum 25th Anniversary 2005
October 3, 2005. Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the East Texas Oil Museum and the 75th Anniversary of the East Texas Oil Field. Event takes place outside he East Texas Oil Museum in Kilgore, Texas, on the campus of Kilgore College. Many speakers, among them is Van Cliburn who grew up in Kilgore (Kilgore High School, Class of 1950). With Kilgore College Rangerettes, Ranger Band, Bill Holda, Louis Gohmert, Byron Dunn, Joe White, Elizabeth Ames Jones, Ralph Hall, Craig Beasley, Pat French, Charles Wooldridge, Kent Hance, William Ingersoll.
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CBS19 gives you a glimpse at what residents woke up to when the sun rose.
East Texas Broadcasting Museum
Chuck Conrad at the Texas Broadcasting and Communications Museum in Kilgore, TX. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal)
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Texas oil boom
The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas. The find was unprecedented in its size and ushered in an age of rapid regional development and industrialization that has few parallels in U.S. history. Texas quickly became one of the leading oil producing states in the U.S., along with Oklahoma and California; soon the nation overtook the Russian Empire as the top producer of petroleum. By 1940 Texas had come to dominate U.S. production. Some historians even define the beginning of the world's Oil Age as the beginning of this era in Texas.[1]
The major petroleum strikes that began the rapid growth in petroleum exploration and speculation occurred in Southeast Texas, but soon reserves were found across Texas and wells were constructed in North Texas, East Texas, and the Permian Basin in West Texas. Although limited reserves of oil had been struck during the 19th century, the strike at Spindletop near Beaumont in 1901 gained national attention, spurring exploration and development that continued through the 1920s and beyond. Spindletop and the Joiner strike in East Texas, at the outset of the Great Depression, were the key strikes that launched this era of change in the state.
This period had a transformative effect on Texas. At the turn of the century, the state was predominantly rural with no large cities.[2] By the end of World War II, the state was heavily industrialized, and the populations of Texas cities had broken into the top 20 nationally.[3] The city of Houston was among the greatest beneficiaries of the boom, and the Houston area became home to the largest concentration of refineries and petrochemical plants in the world.[4] The city grew from a small commercial center in 1900 to one of the largest cities in the United States during the decades following the era. This period, however, changed all of Texas' commercial centers (and developed the Beaumont/Port Arthur area, where the boom began).
H. Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Sid W. Richardson, and Clint Murchison were the four most influential businessmen during this era. These men became among the wealthiest and most politically powerful in the state and the nation.
The last vintage oil field in Texas (near Corsicana, TX).
When many people think of the Texas oil industry, they often have the impression that there are oil fields out there populated with large numbers of oil derricks. At one time this was true for many of those Texas oil fields and even in some Texas towns such as Kilgore in the 1930's that practically had a forest of oil well derricks within the town limits. However, over time, the derricks came down to the point whereby 1995, when this video was shot, few areas of the Lone Star State had any sizable numbers of the older semi-permanent oil derricks left standing.
One area that avoided this trend, at least into the mid 1990's, was an oil field about ten miles southeast of Corsicana, Texas. There, about 25 derricks survived when this was recorded in November, 1995. Also, a fair amount of vintage oil field equipment existed such as pump jacks and oil tanks. The field here was pretty much silent, but one ancient pump jack beneath a derrick stubbornly continued to earn its' keep with its' up and down movement. UPDATE! As of July, 2016, only old one derrick remains standing. However, the oil field itself seems to be more productive with newer pump jacks in operation.
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Texas Town Booms with Oil Rush
The United States is in the midst of another energy production boom and, by 2020, could be producing more oil than global leader Saudi Arabia. One place that knows all about the impact an oil rush can have is the tiny East Texas city of Kilgore. Mike Osborne reports.