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 ...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held Saturday at Spindletop Park for new displays commemorating the 125th anniversary.

That event happened one hundred years ago, some 80 miles east as the crow flies What was it? Oil. On January 10, 1901 an oil well came in at Spindletop Hill, near Beaumont, which was the catalyst that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, exactly 100 years after the Spindletop gusher ushered in the start of the modern petroleum age, the world’s largest offshore oil rig sank off the coast of Brazil. Owned by the Brazilian ...

Oil derricks at Spindletop, near Beaumont, in 1941. The modern petroleum industry was born on January 10, 1901 when the Lucas Gusher, Spindletop No. 1, started exploration on a grand scale. In 1901, a ...

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 ...