Marker Inscription
Industry, Engineering, Exploration/Settlement
Historic Place
Oil Springs Oil Field Discovery Well
The landmarks the nation chose to remember.
About this site
Oil Springs Oil Field Discovery Well is a historic place in Woden, Nacogdoches County, dedicated in 1977. It is one of 13 historic places documented in Nacogdoches County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 232 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.4726, -94.4676 near Woden. The nearest cataloged historic site is Pine Knot (cemetery), about 2.3 miles away. Others within a short drive include Jacobs Chapel Cemetery, Skillern, and Site of Pattonia.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2077001461. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
At Oil Springs, about thirteen miles east of Nacogdoches near Woden, Lyne T. Barret drilled the first producing oil well in Texas, striking oil at 106 feet in 1866 after first leasing the land in 1859. The site also saw the state's first attempt at refining oil, its first commercial oilfield, its first steel storage tanks, and its first pipeline. The discovery well was recognized on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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