✔ Let's Go to Luling!

Oil was discovered in 1922 and by 1926, over 31 million barrels had been produced.The Luling Oil field is 7.5 miles long by a half mile wide. It runs in a northeasterly direction. Read more about the geology of the field and a 1957 Report about the Luling Branyon Field.

The Central Texas Oil Patch Museum is well worth the visit. They ask for a small donation. I saw my very first drill bit there. Plus there's a really nice big map on a table with the oil wells located. You can clearly see the way the field is long and narrow and goes diagonally across Luling.

Luling still has about 200 operating pump jacks. I've seen many of them as we drive along route 183. A few years ago, the City of Luling commissioned an artist to decorate some of the pump jacks and they're really fun to look at.
This web site has nice photos of a few of them.

Parade, live music, food, crafts, carnival, seed-spitting contest.
Luling Watermelon Thump web site.

Corn mill, cotton gin, can see where a huge water wheel once was.
Zedler Mill web site

Huge business until oil was discovered in 1922

Frequent freight trains carrying goods between Houston/Galveston and San Antonio.

Every Saturday

Luling Chamber of Commerce

City of Luling

Luling Independent School District