Historical Markers in
Jim Wells County, Texas

Alice Cemetery Alonso S. Perales Archelaus Bynum Dodson First Presbyterian Church of Alice First United Methodist Church (Alice) Fort Casa Blanca, C.S.A. Jim Wells County Jim Wells County Courthouse Las Calaveras Cemetery Los Preseños McGill Brothers Building Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Premont San Diego Cemetery Vicinity of Texas Rangers' Battle of May 29, 1850

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.

~ Texas random facts