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Melrose, in Nacogdoches County, was the site in 1866 of the first drilled well to produce oil in Texas
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Jan. 10, 1901, is the most famous date in Texas petroleum history.
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The first offshore drilling was in shallow northern Galveston Bay, where the Goose Creek Field was discovered in 1908
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The Permian Basin of West Texas has yielded large quantities of oil since the Big Lake discovery in 1923
