Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum, Oil industry museum in Beaumont, United States.

Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum is an oil industry museum in Beaumont that displays fifteen reconstructed buildings from the 1900s, including a saloon, post office, general store, and livery stable filled with period objects. The buildings are accurate recreations that show how people lived and worked during the early days of oil extraction.

The museum commemorates the discovery of the Lucas Gusher in 1901, when an oil well at Spindletop Hill suddenly erupted with tremendous force. This discovery sparked the rapid growth of the region and turned it into a center of early American oil production.

The name Gladys City comes from Gladys Bingham, a Sunday-school pupil of Pattillo Higgins, who founded the Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company in 1892 to build a model industrial town. Area performers stage period reenactments at the museum, and on special occasions staff "blow the gusher" with a plume of water, a spoken narrative and sound effects.

The museum sits on the Lamar University campus in Beaumont, and the staff stages the "gusher" blow only for special occasions and anniversaries, with a water plume, narration and sound effects. Ask at the entrance about those dates before planning a visit around the reenactment.

The "gusher" is a water plume, not oil: staff pump water through a replica wooden derrick on special occasions and anniversaries, adding a narrated account and sound effects to simulate 10 January 1901. The original Lucas Gusher sprayed over 100 feet above the derrick for nine days before being capped.