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Baytown Sun in Baytown, Texas

18 Jan 1973

Page 19

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Baytown Sun

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Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jan 18, 1973

Page

19

Red Pruett Recalls Baytown Oil Boom Militia Arrival

Red Pruett recalls the day the state militia arrived to keep order after the Goose Creek oil field boom drew 15,000 to 26,000 people to Baytown and Hug Island. He describes tent life, improvised housing on derricks, and locals sharing meals with travelers amid shortages and migration.

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Baytown Gouge Creek Hug Island Reds Pruett Pruett Farm Weinwarten’s Thomas Circles Red Pruetts Italy Houston Price Pruett Crosby Pruett Goose Creek Ashbel Texas Beaumont Citizens National Bank Bank West Texas Avenue Bridge Buffalo Bayou Morgan's Point la Porte Counly Ross Sterling Humble Oil Dayton and
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Cedar Point plantation near Galveston Bay and Cedar Bayou church

General Sam Houston acquired Cedar Point plantation about 1838 on high land overlooking Galveston Bay. The Cedar Bayou Methodist Church formed in 1844 a few miles upstream from the bayou mouth and has remained at the same site since.

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Sam Houston Cedar Point Galveston Bay CB Methodists Cedar Bayou Methodist Church
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