In 1920, near Clemville, Texas, J.S. Abercrombie Mineral Company put a pumping rig into operation on a new oil well at a location west of present El Dorado Road. In 1927 the well went dry, and the pumping rig was not used again. In 1980 J.G. “Pappy” Stone donated this example of an early oil well pumping rig to A.W. “Al” Hurta, Matagorda County Commissioner, Precinct No. 4. The same year it was moved to this location and restored as a reminder of the county’s oil production in the early years of this century.