Discovery of the Powell Field, also near Corsicana, followed in 1900. Jan. 10, 1901, is the most famous date in Texas petroleum history. This is the date that the great gusher erupted in the oil well being drilled at Spindletop, near Beaumont, by a mining engineer, Capt. A. F.
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Power passed from kings to local lords, giving rise to a system known as feudalism. Under feudalism, landowning nobles governed and protected the people in exchange for services such as fighting in a noble's army or farming the land.
