Modern Cleaners / Dye Chile

Historical marker location:

835 East 1st Street, Wichita, Kansas

( Marker is on Mosley near 1st Street, on the left when traveling north.)

1922.

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.