A Guide to the Images of the Bronze Map on the Lawn of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
23. Alabama's First Commercial Oil Well, 1944
Choctaw County
The State of Alabama granted Hunt Oil Company a permit to drill the A. R. Jackson Well No. 1, near Gilbertown,
in January 1944. When the company discovered oil in February, Alabama became an oil producing state.
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