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Birthplace of Ector County's Oil boom. First civic development here was wide-open town, "Derrick City", platted March 1927, after Dec. 28, 1926, oil discovery by driller Josh Cosden on land of W. E. Connell, near the old farming and cattle station…
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Post Office established 1944 in drug store of C. J. Brown, Jr., who named it in response to U.S. Post Office Dept. request for title suitable to locality. Residents have since made history by planting shade trees. Now production hub of Permian Bas…
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