4th grade history

Welcome to the

Kilgore College

East Texas Oil Museum

Museum Manners

The Oil Boom

Warm Up

What is OIL and how is it CREATED?

OIL is…

the remains of organic

matter(dead

plants/animals) under
pressure for thousands

of years.

Oil or petroleum is a

thick, sticky black
substance used as

a fuel source.
CREATED by…

Why did the organic matter fall to the seafloor bed?

THINK ABOUT IT

Name Four Ways We USE Oil Each Day JUST On Our Bodies

1.
2.
3.
4.

These are a few of the uses oil or petroleum products

Only ONE of the 30 images
shown is NOT made from
OIL & Natural Gas...

CAN YOU FIND

IT??

Texas Oil Boom

• 1901- Spindletop– first major oilwell in Texas
• 1920- Prohibition begins
• 1928- Election of Herbert Hoover as president
• 1929-1939- Great Depression
• 1930- Bradford #3 Ignites Oil Boom in East Tx Oilfield
• 1939- World War II Begins

Early Texas….Before the OIL BOOM…

Cattle, Cotton Farms,
Timber, & Railroads

(transportation).

Kilgore AFTER oil boom.

What types of business’ were added?

Ex: Crim Theater
(people needs places for entertainment)

Churches, Stores, Schools…What else??

Map of the East Texas Oilfield