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 Goldsmith
N 31° 58.839 W 102° 36.989
13R E 725211 N 3540772
Texas Historical Marker in front of Goldsmith City Hall at 206 W Gulf Ave, Goldsmith, TX, noting this town's origins as a boom town, ultimately settling down to more mundane things as the oil industry moved off to Odessa.
Waymark Code: WMVX42
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/06/2017
Views: 6
Marker Number: 2198
Marker Text:
Opened as oil field June 14, 1935, with flow of 1140 bbls. of crude oil daily from discovery well. Within a month, shacks and tents housed 350 people. Harry L. Tucker in May 1937 platted town of Ector City. Name later changed to honor C.A. Goldsmith, owner of the land. In 2 years, Goldsmith had cafes, taverns, a hospital, movie theater, hotels, motels, shops and a newspaper.
First residents paid 25 cents at only bath in town -- a shower sprayed from an overhead tank.
Now a gas processing and distribution center. (1965)
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