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Le Premier Puits de Pétrole

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On September 21, 1901, at Evangeline, five miles northeast, well No. 1 Jules Clement of the Jennings Oil company was completed by W. Scott Heywood and his associates. This began Louisiana's important oil and gas industry.
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