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Kilgore, Texas: The World’s Richest Acre

March 25, 2013

On Oct. 3, 1930, in a Rusk County pasture, 70-year-old Columbus M. “Dad” Joiner brought in the Daisy Bradford 3 and unknowingly tapped into the world’s largest pocket of oil. The resulting oil boom brought thousands of producers and drillers into East Texas, turned the quiet little communities into raucous boom towns and made millions…
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This Day in Texas History: Nearly 300 Die in New London School Blast

March 18, 2013

This Day in Texas History: Nearly 300 Die in New London School Blast March 18, 1937 On this day in 1937, a massive explosion caused the steel-framed school building in New London, in Rusk County, to collapse, killing a reported 298 people. It was the worst school disaster in United States history. Of the 500…
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