Spindletop - Beaumont, TX

The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum lies in Beaumont, Texas, to memorialize the discovery of oil at the Spindletop Hill salt dome in Beaumont on Jan. 10, 1901. The discovery triggered an oil boom in Texas that continues today. In addition to a present shop with commemorative presents, the gallery includes a historic, period reenactments by location entertainers. A replica of the wood oil in the early 1900s. For the most recent events, the museum team "blows the gusher" with a feat of water and provides a historical narrative and sound impacts to the replication of oil at Spindletop.

The gallery is on the grounds of Lamar University, which has the gallery.

The restoration of Gladys City was a Bicentennial project of the Lucas Gusher Monument Payment. Lamar University dedicated to the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Gallery on January 10, 1976, the 75th anniversary of the Lucas Gusher. Gladys City has been offered to the State of Texas as a Lamar University for continuing education and advancement. The buildings in Gladys City are all taken after buildings that were at Spindletop in the early 1900s oil boom. Many of the artifacts made use of the equipments of the moment of the boom.

Celebrating the discovery of oil at Spindletop Hillside and also committed January 10, 1941, the Lucas Gusher Monument is a 58-foot pink Texas granite column put up by the Lucas Gusher Monolith Association. The monolith was located at the Lucas Gusher site, about three-fourths of a mile south of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum. It was moved to the Gladys City website in 1978 due to decrease and also availability. Spindletop, the monument, has been designated by the National Historic Landmark by the federal government.

On January 10, 2001, previous president George HW Bush, more than 20,000 attendees from around the country, joined the centennial event of the Lucas Gusher at the museum. C and w musician Tracy Byrd, a Beaumont Citizen, created and carried out an original tune concerning the background of Spindletop for the occasion. Lamar College resumed the gallery after Hurricane Rita in 2005.

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