Sometimes the travel blog takes you only five miles from home. After four years living in Humble, Texas we finally visited The Humble Museum. “Humble” is an adjective meaning modest, but in this case, Humble is the name of a Texas town. It’s pronounced without the ‘H’ because in 1886 when Pleasant Humble applied for a post office, the town adopted his pronunciation of his name, ‘umble. You would think he was a Brit, but, no, he was a Kentucky-born Louisianan Civil War vet who operated a ferry across the San Jacinto.
I do love small town museums as you know if you’ve been following my blog for a while. Here is a sampling of the exhibits. There was also more history, narrow gauge railroad artifacts, train wreck news, oil well fire fighters, an old school bus, and more.
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- Welcome to the Humble Museum. Saving the past for the future.
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- Entry ticket even though entry is free.
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- There were lots of artifacts. This is one I had never heard of.
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- A toy iron that plugs in. What could go wrong?
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- There once was a huge oil field in town.
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- A common sight in Texas.
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- None of this remains.
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- Humble Oil and Refining Co. was founded in 1911 in Humble, Texas. In 1919, a 50% interest in Humble Oil was acquired by Standard Oil of New Jersey, which acquired the rest of the company in September 1959 and merged with its parent company to become Exxon Company, USA in 1973.
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- Humble remembers The Alamo.
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- This diorama built by local Boy Scouts. The one at The Briscoe Museum is better.
