World's Richest Acre. Kilgore, Texas
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Located within the city of Kilgore, Texas - you will find steel derricks dominating the skyline. Although these are no longer oil-producing wells - it hints of a past of large-scale industry in the region.
In this video, I give a brief summary of the discovery of the East Texas Oil Field by wildcat prospector, C.M. Joiner and it's subsequent history.
My grandfather worked for HUMBLE OIL from 1928 to 1958.
I was born in Rusk Co., Overton, 70 yrs ago.
My dad was a Troup High School football coach at the time. 💟
You don't expect to come away from RUclips and learn so much in one video
I've lived in and around Kilgore all my life. During the Oil Boom, Kilgore was a town of roughnecks, bars, and brothels. A lot of people got rich quick and the people with most of the money settled in Tyler Texas. Kilgore today is a nice Texas town of a little over 12000 people with good schools, low taxes, relatively low crime and Kilgore Jr. College, home of the world famous Kilgore Rangerettes. The College has an outstanding Oil Museum that everyone should see. On Commerce street where you see all of the derricks on each side of the road is where the East Texas Oil Men's Chili Cook Off is held each October.. Thousands of people, live music and all the free food you can even dream of eating. It's 2 days of pure debauchery clili cookin and it's serious business! And last but not least, no matter what.... Friday Night High School Football rules.
My grandmother lived in Kilgore in the 1930's then to Overton before Humble took them to Luling, then finally the Permian Basin in 1960. She mentioned that in Kilgore there was a store that had an oil well in the back parking lot (Montgomery Ward ?)
All true. I’m from Lindale and have lived around Tyler since 1988. Beautiful country in East Texas. Great place to call home.
@@rowdyyates8626 :) Hi Rowdy. That's a unique name you have. My baby sister from Gladewater, had a very very dear friend by that same name and I met him a few times. Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago. Anyways, yeah. East Texas is a great place to live.... take care
@@divindave6117 I’m sorry about your friend. Most people don’t remember who Rowdy Yates was. Or Rawhide either.
ty for the info....m now comming there for free food.
Great video
Nice work 💯
All my life lived in South Texas/Corpus Christi and thought the big oil find was made in Humble Texas. I surely have been educated from this video !!!
Really cool seeing this since it’s all local history for me
never heard of Kilgore till now
There are many places like this in Texas. To make it a rich town again, we need to develop it as a tourist destination.🎡
Seems like a place to go
Visited both museums many years ago
Enjoyed watching this keep up the nice work.
Good Job!👍
Even to this day In my hometown of Troup (not far from kilgore) there are wells being drilled
If you washed all the dirt away, East Texas would still be standing because of all the pipelines under it.
The great glory of the past creates a longing as great as its size.
Now that Samsung is building a factory in this close distance, a good opportunity will come again.🧐
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