Kilgore Oilfield Collection
Own a Piece of Oilfield History
The East Texas Boomtown Heritage Collection
For the first time ever, the Kilgore Historical Preservation Foundation is offering historic photographs of the Great East Texas Oilfield during the boom of the 1930s. It was a time when wildcatters came boldly into the piney woods, declared barren and worthless by major oil companies, and discovered one of the nation’s most prolific rivers of oil. It was known as the oilfield that won World War II. Before the drilling ended, Kilgore would be shadowed by more than 1,100 oil derricks within the city limits, including those all jammed together in the World’s Richest Acre.
These photographs have only been seen
in books and historical archives.
