Humble Oil 1905 Photographs
Humble started off small, long before oil turned it into a boomtown. Joseph Dunman was thought to be the first to settle here in 1828, and he was soon followed by folks like Pleasant Smith Humble—“Plez”—who arrived just before the Civil War. Plez built a ferry crossing along the San Jacinto River, served as justice of the peace, and eventually opened a post office in his home in 1886, cementing the Humble name for good....