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The first record of Europeans using oil, was in 1543.
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Nacogdoches County, was site in 1866 of the first drilled well to produce oil in Texas.
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Other oil was found in Bexar County in 1889.
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The first refinery in Texas was built in Corsicana in 1898, and this plant, which shipped its first production in 1899
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Spindletop, 1901 the great gusher erupted in the oil well being drilled at Spindletop, near Beaumont, by mining engineer, Capt. A. F. Lucas.