Old Baldwin Home

Marker installed: 1967

Mid-Victorian architecture; built 1890s by John Baldwin. His cotton gin patrons -- 70 or 80 per day -- were guests at meals in the home.

During early 1940s many legislators, two governors -- Coke Stevenson, W. L. O'Daniel -- were entertained here.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark (RTHL) - 1967.

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Texas has been a major oil-producing state for over a century. The first big oil discovery in Texas was the Spindletop field near Beaumont in 1901, which set off a massive oil boom that transformed the state's economy and made Texas one of the wealthiest states in the country.