1908-Today Texas City's Petrochemical Industries

The Texas City Sun: History in the Headlines online exhibit is a collaborative project between the Moore Memorial Public Library and the Texas City Museum, that brings decades of local reporting from the Texas City Sun together with the museum's decade-based timeline exhibits.  It is made possible through a grant funded by the Texas State Library & Archives Commission and the Institute for Museum & Library Services.

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1. Texas City Terminal Railway Company full page ad highlights 3 decades of port growth (October 31, 1939)
2. World’s Largest Catalytic Cracking Unit To Be Dedicated at Pan Am (November 1, 1953)
3. WAA Sells Plant For $2,300,000 To Oil Company (February 24, 1948)
4. Union Carbide full page ad of 1963 progress with photos (January 30, 1964)
5. Carbide Plans Huge Expansion Program (November 4, 1966)
6. Standard Oil Co Plans Marketing of New Third Grade of Gasoline (June 18, 1970)

* The Texas City Sun newspapers utilized in this exhibit are were provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Moore Memorial Public Library. *