George Strake was sitting in Mass at a small mission church in Conroe, Tx, when he got word that he had struck oil. As the story goes, he told the messenger to let his team know he would be there as soon as Mass was over and continued praying.

That moment was the catalyst of a massive boom that transformed the sleepy little town of Conroe, a town that was suffering from a decline in the lumber industry and underfunded schools in the midst of the Great Depression, into a boomtown almost overnight. With his profits Strake would go…

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