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State’s Earliest Oil Refinery

Muskogee County
Location: south of Muskogee on US-64/US-69, one mile north of junction with US-69/OK-165
Coordinates: 35.728217, -95.402418
Material: Granite
Sponsor(s): Oklahoma Historical Society, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, and the Oklahoma Petroleum Council
Topics: Industry/Business; Petroleum; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Muskogee Oil Refining Company, organized in March 1905, built a finishing plant near this site in November 1904. It soon was producing lamp kerosene, lubricating oil, and industrial fuel, marking the beginning of oil refining in Oklahoma.

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