BEAUMONT, Texas — After a well at Spindletop in Beaumont struck oil on Jan. 10, 1901, the birth of the modern petroleum industry came to be. Now 123 years later, the Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown ...

From the storied King Ranch near the Mexican border to the 1901 Spindletop well in East Texas — the most famous gusher of all time — oil companies are returning to their old stomping grounds in search ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Many Southeast Texans attended a job fair Thursday to learn more about working for the Spindletop Center in Beaumont. The fair took placed at the Fowler-Harris event center at from 9 ...

Let's travel back to a Houston culinary landscape when gents wore ties to restaurants and ladies rightly expected their dining chairs to be pulled out for them. A time before mesclun greens, truffle ...

Spindletop Center put a heavy emphasis on the fun at this year’s annual IDD Fun Day event, held on the grounds of its North Campus in Beaumont. It had all the trappings of a neighborhood block party, ...

The name evokes an oil discovery that made history. When a well piercing the salt dome near Beaumont first gushed in 1901, it introduced a cheap supply of commercial energy that transformed the oil ...

BEAUMONT -- Everything changed that Jan. 10 morning a century ago when a geyser of oil erupted on the low hill south of Beaumont called Spindletop. Oil had been discovered in Texas decades earlier, ...

Spindletop Center has been awarded its sixth certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting. The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada has ...

BEAUMONT — Hard-hatted roughnecks returned to Spindletop just before Christmas, aiming to make another historic strike on the storied grounds. “This is one of the best Christmas presents I have ever ...

Zandra Anderson, Leah Purcell’s civil attorney, says she wants to make it clear that she (Anderson) never showed or bred dogs. Check out our photos of the rescue and evacuation effort at the ...

Spindletop International stuck with tradition for its 50th anniversary Holiday Ball, blanketing the Westin Galleria in gold, glitz and more gold. The majority of the 750 galagoers dressed accordingly ...

I’ve lived in Houston for just over 20 years now and I still remember my first visit to Spindletop fondly. A friend took my sister and I out for drinks and dessert downtown. It was winter in Houston, ...