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Patillo Higgins drilled near Beaumont TX in 1893 for oil, the site of Spindletop in 1901, but ened up with a dry hole. Oil was struck at Corsicana, in 1894, but it was a water well that struck oil. There maybe earlier unrelated drilling.

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Spindletop came in on 10 January 1901 at Beaumont Texas.

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The Answer Is Spindletop..

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Oil Springs, Nacogdoches County, Texas.

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