Spindletop is an oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas, in the United States. The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt...
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Spindletop Hall, located at 3414 Iron Works Pike in Lexington, Kentucky, is the former home of Pansy Yount, wife of Miles Franklin Yount of the Yount-Lee...
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in 1901 with the Spindletop gusher, which demonstrated that a huge oil field lay underneath and adjacent to the city. With Spindletop, several energy companies...
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Spindletop Roller Girls is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Beaumont, Texas. Founded in 2008, as of 2017 the league consists of a single...
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the drilling of an oil well near Beaumont, Texas, that became known as Spindletop. This led to the widespread exploitation of oil and the start of the Petroleum...
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The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum is located in Beaumont, Texas, to commemorate the discovery of oil at the Spindletop Hill salt dome in Beaumont...
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less lucrative. Ultimately, the discovery of major petroleum deposits (Spindletop in particular) initiated an economic boom that became the driving force...
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Spindletop is a rural neighborhood north of Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are I-75 to the west and Berea Road to the south and east...
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Texas oil boom (section Spindletop)
reserves of oil had been struck during the 19th century, the strike at Spindletop near Beaumont in 1901 gained national attention, spurring exploration...
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Thomas J. Donoghue, and Arnold Schlaet upon the discovery of oil at Spindletop. The Texas Fuel Company was not set up to drill wells or to produce crude...
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Rienstrad, Ellen; Stiles, Jo (2002). Giant Under the Hill, A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas in 1901. Austin: Texas State Historical...
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"Lucich discovery of oil at Spindletop, Texas - Croatian History". Retrieved 12 July 2017. "lucich discovery of oil at spindletop, texas - CROWN - Croatian...
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Rienstrad, Ellen; Stiles, Jo (2002). Giant Under the Hill, A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas in 1901. Austin: Texas State Historical...
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is announced. 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. 1901 – New York: Automobile Club of America installs...
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Paul N. Spellman, Spindletop Boom Days (Texas A & M University Press, 2001). ISBN 0890969469. John S. Spratt, The Road to Spindletop: Economic Change in...
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off the crown block, the Lucas Gusher roared in and the Spindletop oil field was born. Spindletop became the focus of frenzied drilling; oil production...
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Tones, a pop-oriented EP slated as her Asylum follow-up, was released by Spindletop Records in 1986. It also failed to find a wide audience. Her next release...
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Company was chartered in Texas, as it turned its interest to the new Spindletop field in Texas. Joseph Newton Pew's nephew, J. Edgar Pew, was able to...
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Standard Oil Company, being formed well before the discovery of the Spindletop oil field (in Texas, far from Standard Oil Company's base in the Midwest)...
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decline. Later discoveries made 1927 the peak year of Spindletop production, but Spindletop's early decline forced Gulf to seek alternative sources of...
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well as tribal art from Africa, New Guinea and Pre-Columbian Mexico. The Spindletop-Gladys City Museum is an open-air museum commemorating the 1901 discovery...
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engaged in various mining business endeavors before capitalizing on the Spindletop oil discovery in Texas, as a result of which he began devoting his full...
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"live in the studio" (direct record, no mixing or overdubs) album on Spindletop Records, This Side Up (previously 1986), was re-released on the GRP label...
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in Beaumont, Texas, almost seven years after the discovery of oil at Spindletop. His father, Will McCarthy, worked in the oil fields and from the age...
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businessman and a self-taught geologist. He earned the nickname the "Prophet of Spindletop" for his endeavors in the Texas oil business, which accrued a fortune...
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Pattillo Higgins successfully drilled for oil in what is now known as Spindletop. Major oil producing regions in Texas include the East Texas Oil Field...
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the discovery of oil in 1901, shortly after oil was found at the nearby Spindletop salt dome. It is known as the birthplace of Texaco. Formed in 1903, the...
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Golden Triangle. The "golden" refers to the wealth that came from the Spindletop oil strike near Beaumont in 1901, and "triangle" refers to the area between...
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in the Eredivisie. In 2007, he became the training coordinator for the Spindletop Select Soccer Club in Beaumont, Texas, training youth players aged 9 to...
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the British steamer Saint Oswald in 1899. When oil was discovered at Spindletop, the J.M. Guffey Petroleum Company, later Gulf Oil, had run pipelines...
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