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    Spindletop is an oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas, in the United States. The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt...
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    The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum is located in Beaumont, Texas, to commemorate the discovery of oil at the Spindletop Hill salt dome in Beaumont...
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  • Spindletop Hall, located at 3414 Iron Works Pike in Lexington, KY, is the former home of Pansy Yount, wife of Miles Franklin Yount of the Yount-Lee Oil...
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  • Spindletop is a rural neighborhood north of Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are I-75 to the west and Berea Road to the south and east...
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    reserves of oil had been struck during the 19th century, the strike at Spindletop near Beaumont in 1901 gained national attention, spurring exploration...
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    the drilling of an oil well near Beaumont, Texas, that became known as Spindletop. This led to the widespread exploitation of oil and the start of the Petroleum...
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    less lucrative. Ultimately, the discovery of major petroleum deposits (Spindletop in particular) initiated an economic boom that became the driving force...
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  • Rienstrad, Ellen; Stiles, Jo (2002). Giant Under the Hill, A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas in 1901. Austin: Texas State Historical...
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    in 1901 with the Spindletop gusher, which demonstrated that a huge oil field lay underneath and adjacent to the city. With Spindletop, several energy companies...
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    businessman and a self-taught geologist. He earned the nickname the "Prophet of Spindletop" for his endeavors in the Texas oil business, which accrued a fortune...
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    off the crown block, the Lucas Gusher roared in and the Spindletop oil field was born. Spindletop became the focus of frenzied drilling; oil production...
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  • Thomas J. Donoghue, and Arnold Schlaet upon the discovery of oil at Spindletop. The Texas Fuel Company was not set up to drill wells or to produce crude...
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  • Neville-ization (Black Top) 1987: Nevillization 2 (Live at Tipitina's Volume 2) (Spindletop) 1994: Live on Planet Earth (A&M) 1998: Live at Tipitina's (1982) (Rhino)...
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    "Lucich discovery of oil at Spindletop, Texas - Croatian History". Retrieved 12 July 2017. "lucich discovery of oil at spindletop, texas - CROWN - Croatian...
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    engaged in various mining business endeavors before capitalizing on the Spindletop oil discovery in Texas, as a result of which he began devoting his full...
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    Tones, a pop-oriented EP slated as her Asylum follow-up, was released by Spindletop Records in 1986. It also failed to find a wide audience. Her next release...
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  • Spindletop Roller Girls is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Beaumont, Texas. Founded in 2008, as of 2017 the league consists of a single...
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  • lower prices. Standard Oil, being formed well before the discovery of the Spindletop oil field (in Texas, far from Standard Oil's base in the Midwest) and...
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    Company was chartered in Texas, as it turned its interest to the new Spindletop field in Texas. Joseph Newton Pew's nephew, J. Edgar Pew, was able to...
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    the British steamer Saint Oswald in 1899. When oil was discovered at Spindletop, the J.M. Guffey Petroleum Company, later Gulf Oil, had run pipelines...
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    port were accelerated. The following year, the discovery of oil at the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont prompted the development of the Texas petroleum...
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    The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop, Texas (1901)...
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    Paul N. Spellman, Spindletop Boom Days (Texas A & M University Press, 2001). ISBN 0890969469. John S. Spratt, The Road to Spindletop: Economic Change in...
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  • well as tribal art from Africa, New Guinea and Pre-Columbian Mexico. The Spindletop-Gladys City Museum is an open-air museum. The museum commemorates the...
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    benefits of the oil boom, particularly after the discovery of oil at Spindletop on January 10, 1901. The dredging of the Houston Ship Channel began by...
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    (480 m3) per day, triggering the oil boom in Lambton County. Lucas Gusher at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas, US in 1901 flowed at 100,000 barrels (16,000 m3) per...
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  • Davlen (North Hollywood) Wally Heider (Hollywood) Larrabee (Los Angeles) Spindletop Studio Masters Sunset Sound (mixing) Studio 55 (mixing) Genre Bubblegum...
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  • fusion of capital provided by T. P. Lee, Yount was confident that the Spindletop oil field in southeast Texas had not been tapped out, so he set about...
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    "live in the studio" (direct record, no mixing or overdubs) album on Spindletop Records, This Side Up (previously 1986), was re-released on the GRP label...
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    first primitive Christmas tree was used by the Hamill Brothers to bring Spindletop under control. It consisted of a T-valve, with a 6-inch (150 mm) and 8-inch...
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