LULING OIL MUSEUM

Founded in 1990 as a non-profit educational foundation, the Luling Oil Museum is designed to preserve and honor the memories of the vibrant life and times of the "the toughest town in Texas" and the oil boom in the Central Texas oil patch... Once known as "the toughest town in Texas", Luling was established in 1874 as the far western stop of the Sunset Branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad. In 1922, Edgar B. Davis brought in Rafael Rios #1, which proved to be part of one of the most significant oil fields ever discovered in the Southwest. Perhaps his greatest legacy was the discovery of the Edwards Lime. It set off vigorous exploration to find the lucrative shallow production. Almost overnight, Luling was transformed from a railroad town of 500 to an oil town of 5,000. Tents filled every vacant area with roughnecks and their families. "Rag Town" as they called it came with every kind of good and bad-makeshift saloons, restaurants and even a shooting gallery as entertainment. Work..

Primary location: Luling United States