They began planning a town to be laid out on this land. In 1835 the land of Tevis, together with the nearby community of Santa Anna (in total, 50 acres (20В ha)), was purchased by Henry Millard (c. Soon after that, a small community grew up around the farm, which was named Tevis Bluff or Neches River Settlement. In 1824 Bobby and Nancy Tevis settled on the west bank of the Neches River and developed a farm. GSU's Edison Plaza headquarters remains the tallest building in Beaumont. Over the years, several corporations have been based in this city, including Gulf States Utilities, which had its headquarters in Beaumont until its takeover by Entergy Corporation in 1994.

Along with Port Arthur and Orange, Beaumont forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the Texas Gulf Coast.Д«eaumont is home to Lamar University, a national Carnegie doctoral research university with 14,966 students, including undergraduates and postgraduates. The area rapidly developed as one of the country's major petrochemical refining areas. With Spindletop, several energy companies developed in Beaumont, and some remain. ДЄ big change occurred in 1901 with the Spindletop gusher, which demonstrated that a huge oil field lay underneath and adjacent to the city. Rice became an important commodity crop in Texas and is now cultivated in 23 counties. In 1892, Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first commercially successful rice mill in Texas, stimulating development of rice farming in the area he also started an irrigation company (since 1933 established as the Lower Neches Valley Authority) to support rice culture. The pioneer settlement had an economy based on the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. The city of Beaumont was founded in 1835. Its metropolitan area was the 10th largest in Texas in 2019, and 132nd in the United States. With a population of 115,282 at the 2020 census, Beaumont is the largest incorporated municipality by population near the Louisiana border. As the county seat of Jefferson County, within the BeaumontвЂ“ Port Arthur metropolitan statistical area, it is located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about 85 miles (137В km) east of Houston (city center to city center).

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