Historical Marker
First Producing Oil Well in West Texas
Historical marker location:
US 180 and SH 6 at Courthouse Square, Albany, Texas
( Courthouse Square, intersection of Highway 180 & SH 6 -Albany)
Marker installed: 1940
Marker is a miniature oil well derrick made of steel, eight feet tall, mounted on a moulded concrete base. A bronze plate attached to the derrick reads:
The Texas Company --J. E. Wild A-1 Survey 65, University Lands, Shackelford County, completed November 9, 1913. Presented to The Texas Company by Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association at Albany Chamber of Commerce Commemoration Dinner February 12, 1940.
(1940).