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See First Oil Well In Oklahoma, Chelsea, Oklahoma
Drilled in 1889 and completed a year later near oil seeps at Chelsea in Indian Territory. In 1882, Edward Byrd, a Cherokee by marriage, found oil seeps southwest of Chelsea in Indian Territory. Two years later, the Cherokee Nation passed a law authorizing organization of a company “for the purpose of finding petroleum, or rock oil, and thus increasing the revenue of the Cherokee Nation.”
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