In the 1940s, a drive through Kilgore was unlike any other excursion into East Texas.
More than 1,000 wooden oil derricks -- perhaps the most visible evidence of the East Texas oil boom -- lined the town’s streets. During the Christmas season, lights were hung on many of the derricks. And one plot of ground was known as “the world’s richest acre.”
Park and walk a few feet to find this tiny cache in a little replica of oil derricks from boom days.