Monroe County PA Archives News.....First Pennsylvania Oil Well April 6, 1865
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Jeffersonian Republican. (Stroudsburg, Pa.) April 6, 1865
The first well in the Pennsylvania oil region was sunk in 1859. On the 28th day of
August the first vein of oil was struck at a depth of sixty-nine feet four inches
from the surface. 

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