You searched for Postal Code: 75601
Showing results 1 to 10 of 35
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODM_industry-accelerates-economic-growth_Longview-TX.html
The area's industrial development was greatly enhanced in 1950 when the Texas Eastman petrochemical plant located near Longview. What originally was intended as a small butyraldehyde plant became the city's biggest employer and the second largest …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODL_the-fabulous-fifties_Longview-TX.html
The end of World War II ushered in a long period of national prosperity, and Longview thrived thanks to the East Texas Oil Field and associated natural gas. Construction in Longview during the 1950s rivaled or exceeded that of the 1930s. Major pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODK_longview-expands-its-influence_Longview-TX.html
The last decade of Longview's first hundred years was a time of historic and fundamental change. In 1962, the "slant hole" scandal brought unfavorable national attention to the East Texas Oil Field. (This illegal process actually pioneered technol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODJ_completing-a-century-of-development_Longview-TX.html
The decade of the 1970s saw complete integration of the Longview Independent School District. For the first time, African-Americans were elected to the Gregg County Commissioners Court, City Council and School Board. In May 1970, Longview celebrat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODG_transportation-model-ts-trains-trolleys_Longview-TX.html
Although J. Garland Pegues had established the City Garage (later Pegues-Hurst Ford), all roads leading in and out of Longview remained dirt wagon tracks. Railroads continued to be the city's lifeline. In 1910, there were 18 daily passenger trains…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODF_the-end-of-the-beginning_Longview-TX.html
By 1920, Longview boasted 9 1/2 miles of paved streets, concrete sidewalks, electric street lights, municipal garbage collection and a paid fire department with the state's first two pumping trucks. In 1920, the Longview Rotary Club was organized …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODE_first-discovery-wells-and-then-the-boom_Longview-TX.html
Black gold! Suddenly, the Great Depression was forgotten with the late 1930 discovery of the East Texas Oil Field, biggest in the world. Trapped in a layer of porous sandstone called the Woodbine formation 3,600 feet below the surface, the field w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODD_the-oil-boom-brings-renewal_Longview-TX.html
Thanks to discovery of the East Texas Oil Field, Longview's population nearly tripled during the next decade, to 13,758 by 1940. While the rest of the nation suffered during the Great Depression. Longview's citizens, businesses and industry, schoo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODC_world-war-ii-its-aftermath_Longview-TX.html
During World War II, served as gathering point for the "Big Inch" pipeline. Two feet in diameter — the largest pipe yet constructed—the "Big Inch" line carried crude oil to Pennsylvania. From there, branches led to East Coast refinerie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ODB_a-city-that-grows_Longview-TX.html
Longview News-Journal Publisher Carl Estes successfully led a civic effort to bring R.G. LeTourneau's excavator manufacturing company here. An ardent lay evangelist, LeTourneau also established a technical institute on the site of the former Harmo…