 With the discovery of the Goose Creek Oil Field, the rival communities of Pelly in the late 1910s, and East Baytown in the early 1920s, developed as early boomtowns.The "East" in East Baytown was later dropped because it was west of Goose Creek.Serious talk of merging the three cities began shortly after World War I, but the community of Baytown was opposed to this idea.