Museums
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Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum
Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum is a museum in Beaumont, TX, part of the Port Arthur and Sulphur guide. Cost: under $25.
5550 Jimmy Simmons Blvd · Beaumont, TX
Why you should go…
The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum, administered by Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, opened in 1976. Its 15 replica buildings recreate the town of Gladys City as it looked during the 1901 Spindletop oil boom, the discovery that launched the modern Texas oil industry. Exhibits inside the buildings display objects and artifacts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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