The oil field was discovered in 1926, and the first buildings in town were basic housing and infrastructure for workers on the field, all built by the Big Lake Oil Company which became Plymouth Oil Company, which was purchased by the Ohio Oil Company, then purchased by Marathon Oil Company, and owned today by Kinder Morgan.
In 2001, it was truncated north of the railroad tracks to allow for remote control operation of locomotives servicing the Kinder Morgan plant.
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In 2009 Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, Southern Company and Kinder Morgan were involved in an explosion that killed one person and injured three people in Sylvarena, Mississippi.