The former Bar-K Ranch store on U.S. 259 is under new ownership with a new name.
Longview residents Cody and Brittani Milford purchased the gas station and convenience store business from Miles Darby and a gas station with a Whataburger and convenience store on U.S. 271 in Tyler from longtime East Texas convenience store operator Kyle Adams. The couple changed the names of both stores to Spindletop Market. Milford had previously worked for Adams, who has sold his convenience stores. Milford said that made his transition into owner easy.
“It was like naming a child,” Cody Milford said, laughing about he and his wife coming up with the stores’ new names. The name is a reference to the Spindletop oilfield discovered in the Beaumont area in 1901. They are leasing the buildings from the previous owners of the…
