Black plaque № 23744

Corsicana, TX, United States

The Birthplace of the Petroleum Industry. West of the Mississippi River. In this well, drilled by H. G. Johnston, E. H. Akin, and Charles Rittersbacher under contract for a water well for the city of Corsicana in 1894, the first oil in commercial quantities in the mid-continent area was discovered a

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