Spindle Top Hill

In the beginning of 2001, a friend of Mr. Greenwood visited Spindle Head Hill Museum in Beaumont, a town 1 hours drive from  Houston, Texas.

This place is also also called Gladys City BoomTown. Gladys City was originally intended to be a model for industrial cities, and was named after Gladys Bingham, a Sunday School pupil of Patillo Higgins, a geologist who first became interested in the possibility that "Spindletop Hill" was covering an abundance of fuel.  This replica of the Spindletop oil derrick sits is only a half mile from the drilling site that uncovered the Spindletop gusher in 1901.

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Saloon for tough neck

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Wooden made Oil Derrick

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Wooden made Oil tank


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