Tuesday, April 12

Beaumont:  It was a lazy town of agriculture, lumber, etc.  Then, in 1901, oil was found. Like most stories, it starts with a person with a vision, failure, another vision, then a couple of investors and a drill in an area that was promising oil.  As the drillers were changing drill bits, a plumb of oil shots hundreds of feet in the air, and a lake was formed with 50000 gallons of crude.  The rest is history as they say.  Texaco, Mobil oil, and more were founded.  We went to this museum as well.