Silent Glory

Historical marker location:

1006 East Ash Street, Oberlin, Kansas

( Memorial can be reached from Martin Avenue, 0.1 miles south of East Frontier Parkway (U.S. 36), on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1973

For God and Country.

The first successful oil well west of the Mississippi was drilled in 1860 in Neodesha, Kansas, which led to the state becoming a major oil producer in the early 20th century.