Historical Marker

Cable Tool Rig

Historical marker location:
2201 Six Flags Rd., Inside Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington, Texas
( Six Flags over Texas, Boom Town, 2201 Road to Six Flags, Arlington.)
Marker installed: 1966

Drilled the early deep oil wells in Texas. Derrick here is exact replica and has same rigging and tools used in 1920 to drill the Crowley No. 1, a 250-barrel producer at 3500 feet--one of deepest wells up to the time. It was near Breckenridge, in one of great fields in oil empire of Texas.

(1966).