File:The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum.jpg
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English: The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum is located in Beaumont, Texas, to commemorate the Lucas Gusher at the Spindletop Hill salt dome in Beaumont on Jan. 10, 1901. The discovery sparked an oil boom in Texas that continues today. Along with a gift shop with commemorative gifts, the museum features historical, period reenactments by area performers. A replica of the wooden oil derricks that once dotted the landscape of Spindletop Hill in the early 1900s has been erected near the museum. For special occasions and anniversaries, the museum staff “blows the gusher” with a plume of water and provides a historical narrative and sound effects to simulate the discovery of oil at Spindletop. |
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Re-creation of original Lucas derrick. It's also called a simulator, where on special occasions the museum used it to create a gusher of water like the original gusher of oil
A monument to the Lucas Gusher memorializing the largest gusher in the U.S. and the event that made Texas the Oil Boom State and the U.S. the largest oil producing country in the world.
This black object is a gunbarrel. As oil comes out to the ground it's put in the gunbarrel along with the water that come out with it. Here the oil rises to the top (or the water sinks to the bottom, whichever you prefer) then the oil is drained off and the water dumped.
The museum itself
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