Oklahoma’s First Commercial Oil Well

Oklahoma’s First Commercial Oil Well is an Oklahoma historical marker in Washington County.

Washington County · on US-75 south of junction with US-60 in Bartlesville

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Nellie Johnstone No. 1, the first commercial oil well in Indian Territory, was completed on April 15, 1897, by the Cudahy Oil Company on the south bank of Caney River.

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