1941 ✯ Naval Air Station Atlanta ✯ 1959

Historical marker location:

2000 Airport Drive, Chamblee, Georgia

( Marker is at the intersection of Airport Drive and Clairmont Road (Georgia Route 155), on the right on Airport Drive.)

Marker installed: 1991

Georgia was the site of the first American gold rush, but it was also the site of the first American oil rush. In 1905, oil was discovered in Bibb County, and the state's oil industry began to grow rapidly.