Caddo-Pine Island Oil and Historical Museum 
Oil City, Louisiana
The Region The Caddo-Pine Island Oil and Historical Museum is dedicated to the history and preservation of northwest Louisiana's natural resources, especially its rich oil history, mystical Caddo Lake of Louisiana and Texas, and the peoples that settled this region.
Museum Info
Site Map Preserved antique oil-drilling machinery and a Kansas City Southern caboose reside near the renovated Kansas City Southern Depot building, home of the present museum.
Regional
History  
We invite you to see one of the few remaining regions with so much oil history undisturbed, where a country drive reveals steel derricks common in the pine forests. To this day bass fishing in Caddo Lake is best around still-active pump jacks of wells drilled over a half-century ago. The preserved original bank building and post office of Trees City, one of the first U.S. oil company towns and built by the famous wildcatter Mike Benedum, are preserved on the museum grounds.
Oil & Gas
Museums
Across the street from the old depot is the nearly-completed new museum building (to right) scheduled for a 1999 opening. The Trees City bank building is to the left of the new museum.
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                          This site is created and maintained for the CPI Society by Mary Barrett.