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  1. Nellie Johnstone No. 1 was the first commercially productive oil well in Oklahoma (at that time in Indian Territory). Completed on April 15, 1897, the well was drilled in the Bartlesville Sand near Bartlesville, opening an era of oil exploration and development in Oklahoma. It was abandoned as a well in 1964.

  2. Nellie Johnstone No. 1- Oklahoma's 1st Commercial Oil Well. Attractions, Culture & History. 200 N Cherokee, Bartlesville, OK 74003. (918) 333-8062. Get Directions Add to My Trip. Hours: Monday - Sunday: 6:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Load Map Get Directions.

    • 300 SE Adams Blvd, Bartlesville, 74003, OK
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  3. Nellie Johnstone Cannon, a descendant of Delaware Chief Charles Journeycake, was allotted the land on which the well was dug. In 1917 she sold the land to the city of Bartlesville, and a redwood replica of the derrick was built in Johnstone Park.

  4. Apr 8, 2024 · With the railroad and pipeline, the Nellie Johnstone No.1, became commercially profitable in May 1900 with the initial shipment of oil at a price of $1.25 per barrel. As the discovery well for the giant Bartlesville-Dewey field, the historic well ushered in the oil era for Oklahoma Territory.

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  5. Jan 15, 2010 · The Nellie Johnstone Number One, Oklahoma's first commercial oil well, was drilled at Bartlesville in April 1897. Profitable development of the region's oil fields began with the arrival of the AT&SF. (AT&SF tank cars first carried oil from Bartlesville to a Neodesha, Kansas, refinery in May 1900.)

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  7. At 3:00 p.m. on April 15, 1897, Jennie Cass dropped an explosive charge down the well's hole and brought in the state's first commercially successful oil well, the Nellie Johnstone Number One, at fifty barrels per day.

  8. Mar 27, 2020 · The site of Oklahomas first commercial oil well, the Nellie Johnstone No. 1, Bartlesville became the state’s first oil boomtown soon after the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reached the settlement in 1899.

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