A reconstructed wooden derrick marks the site of the 1892 Norman No. 1, widely recognized as the first commercially successful oil well in the Mid-Continent field. The small site represents the beginning of an industry that transformed Kansas and neighboring states.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: kansashistory.gov/kansapedia/norman-no-1-neodesha-wilson-county/12159