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Glenn Pool World’s Great Oil Pool

Tulsa County
Location: at the town of Glenpool, Tulsa County on the east side of US-75 at junction with SH-67.
Topics: Industry/Business; Natural Resources; Petroleum; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Glenn Pool opened on November 22, 1905. About one-half mile northwest of this point, Robert Galbreath and Frank Chesley brought in the Ida E. Glenn No. 1 Oil Well. This began the great growth of the oil industry in the city of Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma.

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