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Oil Truck

Description: Copy negative of an oil truck on a field. There is an unknown driver inside the truck, there is a big tank attached to the back of the truck. "Pettus Oil & Refining CO." reads on the door of the truck.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Oil Truck

Description: Copy negative of two images of a truck. The top image shows a truck with a tank of what is probably oil attached to it. The bottom image shows Sid Raper standing by a truck out on a field.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Oil Truck

Description: Copy negative of Pettus Oil & Refining Co. There are buildings in the back, storage tanks, trucks and cars, and a railroad in front.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Mercantile in Mineral

Description: Photograph of the Mercantile Store in Mineral, Texas. The first Anglo settlers to the Mineral area date back to 1845 when President Anson Jones granted a large track of land to the heirs of Henry Coley. After the Civil War, Refugio resident Thomas Howard and son-in-law, Lyman Blackman, begin a freight route from Saint Marys hauling lumbar and other supplies into the Mineral area. They then returned with hides and other products for export. While digging water wells a vein of hot mineral wat… more
Date: unknown
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Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

Oil Tanker at the Maggie Ray McKinney Oil Well

Description: Postcard of the first Humble Oil Tanker taking out the first load of oil from the Maggie Ray McKinney oil well. On December 29, 1929 as the Houston Oil Company drilled for gas, the first oil well in Bee County was brought in on the JJ McKinney land east of Pettus. Humble Oil and Refining Company completed McKinney No. 1 Oil Well, Bee County, January 31, 1930. The discovery brought a rush of people to the community of Pettus. The discovery of oil relieved the pressure of depression. By 1937… more
Date: unknown
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Partner: Bee County Historical Commission
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