Click on the stars below to learn about oil at 3 famous US sites!

1- Titusville, Pennsylvania - The first commercial well drilled in the United States
2- Spindletop, Texas - Hailed as the "Birth of the Modern Oil Industry"
3- Signal Hill, California - One of the most productive fields per acre the world has ever known

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