The Texas Rust Belt: How Changing Industry Made Port Arthur a Relic Amidst a Statewide Boom

Located in the far Southeast corner of Texas along the Louisiana border, Port Arthur is a city built for a boom that busted. Home to the nation's largest refining complex, the city developed on oil money and blue collar jobs. But as the turbulence of the 60s and 70s and the decades long decline in refining jobs took hold, Port Arthur became a shell of the city it once was. SOURCES | FURTHER READING: 1. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news... 2. https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/z-... 3. https://www.environmentalintegrity.or... 4. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/e... 5. https://nexusmedianews.com/too-little... 6. https://southernretail.blogspot.com/2... 7. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opin... 8. https://environmentalintegrity.org/wp... 9. https://kfdm.com/news/local/port-arth... 10. https://www.12newsnow.com/article/new... 11. https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/ne... 12. https://www.portarthurtx.gov/Document... 13. https://worldpopulationreview.com/sta... 14. https://worldpopulationreview.com/sta... 15. https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/port-art... 16. https://www.12newsnow.com/article/new... 17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Ar... 18. https://www.bestplaces.net/economy/ci... 19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederla... TOPICS COVERED: Texas History, Oil Industry, Oil and Gas, Refinery, Refining, Arthur Stillwell, Port Arthur, Port Arthur TX, Abandoned Buildings, Abandoned Places, Ghost Town, Ghost Towns, Ghost Cities, Abandoned, Urban Decay, Detroit, Rust Belt, Economics, Economic Decline, Railroad, Kansas City Southern, KCS, Railroads, Ships, Infrastructure, Abandoned Mansion, Poverty, Texas, East Texas, Spindletop, Hurricanes, Hurricane Harvey, Flooding