Comments on: Million Barrel Museum https://aoghs.org/energy-education-resources/monahans-oil-museum/ Oil History is Energy Education Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:01:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: 4 Comfortable Cheap Hotels in Monahans TX With Great Prices https://aoghs.org/energy-education-resources/monahans-oil-museum/#comment-5894 Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:04:19 +0000 http://aoghs.org/?p=22538#comment-5894 […] is also home to the Million Barrel Museum, which tells the story of the oil industry in the Permian Basin. The museum features exhibits of […]

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]]> By: Claude D. Davis https://aoghs.org/energy-education-resources/monahans-oil-museum/#comment-5150 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:17:00 +0000 http://aoghs.org/?p=22538#comment-5150 I played many days by myself in the Million Barrel tank in 1936 when I was about
6 yrs old. Two things stick in my mind. A scary creature called the Child of the Earth
inhabited the tank. Second, I witnessed long trains carrying hundreds of people probably going to California seeking work.These people were sitting on top of box
cars(men, women and little children) sometimes even the coal cars. It was like
seeing a movie. It was very dramatic to me.

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