Historical Markers in
Bailey County, Texas

Bailey County Cemetery Cookhouse - Muleshoe Ranch Coyote Lake Enochs Cemetery Enochs Cemetery First Irrigation Well in Bailey County Harden A. Douglass La Pista de Vida Agua Maple Cemetery Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge Site of Virginia City The Founding of Bailey County The Mule Townsite of Old Hurley XIT Ranch South Line

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.

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