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The Don D. Harrington Petroleum Wing exhibits spotlight the oil field workers whose sweat and blood transformed scrubby ranchlands into oil-soaked “patches” bristling with drilling rigs. It tells the story of the oil boom years in the Texas Panhandle during the 1920s and the 1930s and of the men who made it happen. Two floors of exhibits spotlight the petroleum industry. The collection includes equipment and tools used to drill and maintain oil and gas wells in Texas. On the first floor is a 1920s wooden cable-tool drilling rig that was moved from the Borger fields and reconstructed at the museum. On the second floor the 1930s filling station includes a hand-operated gas pump, two Model T Fords and a vintage truck. |
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