 Picture Courtesy of Joseph Landis
In 1808 David and Joseph Ruffner near here on the bank of the Kanawha completed a well into solid rock to a depth of 59 feet by a method and with drilling tools they devised, which was further developed in this valley by themselves and Billye Morris into what is now known as the cable tool method of drilling. Drilling tools and drillers from the Kanawha Valley drilled the first well for oil at Titusville, Pennsylvania.
Sponsored by the W. VA. Centennial Committee of the Oil and Natural Gas Industy
West Virginia Historic Committee
US 60, Malden Kanawha County West Virginia
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