Kilgore
Kilgore is surrounded by the pine forests and clear blue skies of East Texas about 120 miles east of Dallas. In 1930, this quiet farming town was thrust into the world limelight by the discovery of a huge oil field; over 1,200 oil wells were once pumping within the city limits and some are still producing. More than 24 restored steel derricks are nostalgic reminders of early boom days, and are now decorated during Christmas.
East Texas Oil Museum
Every aspect of the oil boom days of the 1930s is re-created through dioramas, films, sound effects and mementos of the oil field, and from the daily lives of the…
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Roy H. Laird Country Club
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Films and displays of props, costumes, uniforms, awards and mementos of Kilgore College's world-famous precision…
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On part of one downtown block, actually about 1.2 acres, once stood greatest concentration of…
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