Newgulf is on top of the Boling Dome, reputed to be the largest known inland deposit of sulfur in the world, in the extreme eastern corner of Wharton County. The company owned town was established in 1928 for the employees of the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company. About 400 houses-with one, two, or three bedrooms were constructed and were leased to employees. The business section of Newgulf consisted of a single four lane avenue lined with stores. At the town's peak it had as many as fifteen businesses, including a cafe, two dry-goods stores, two grocery stores, two pharmacies, a barbershop, a tailor and cleaning shop, a movie theater, and three garages. Texas Gulf Sulphur also built a hospital, a library, a school, a post office, and a clubhouse with a nine hole golf course. The population of Newgulf peaked in 1940 at 1,586. Self contained and semi isolated, residents developed into a very close-knit community.
By 1956 the sulfur industry was producing more sulfur than it sold, foreign sulfur prices had dipped, and Texas Gulf Sulphur had begun constructing several new plants elsewhere; this, combined with the 1957 United States recession, led to layoffs of Newgulf employees. The company began selling empty houses in 1961. By 1990 only 100 houses remained at Newgulf, and the businesses and their buildings were gone. At that time the only remaining amenitie in Newgulf were the clubhouse and its golf course. Though in 1995 a skeleton crew remained at the sulphur mine site, the town was only a shadow of its former self. The golf course was still in operation.
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N (Meitnerium – Bohrium)(Cobalt/Lithium) (Darmstadtium – Meitnerium)
(Zinc/Carbon). (Titanium/Sodium)(Gold – Lutetium)(Nitrogen – Lithium X Helium)
W (Ununoctium – Ununoctium)(Beryllium +Boron)(Helium + Hydrogen X Lithium) (Zirconium – Bromine)(Scandium/Nitrogen). (Hassium – Fermium)(Curium/Chromium)(Osmium/Potassium)
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