Glenn Pool, World's Greatest Oil Pool

The discovery well stood on a Muscogee (Creek) allotment. Ida E. Glenn and her husband, Robert, leased it to Robert Galbreath for forty-five dollars and a one-eighth share of any oil or gas. Short of money, Galbreath drilled without casing, and the well came in at about 1,481 feet for seventy-five to eighty-five barrels a day. Secrecy failed; fifty to one hundred wells were soon going at once, with oil held in earthen pits that overflowed across the countryside. The pool's 43,520,000 barrels in 1907 made Oklahoma the nation's leading producer, a lead it held until 1928.

What the plaque says

Glenn Pool World's Greatest Oil Pool Opened 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. Oklahoma Historical Society 172-1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Philbrook Museum of Art — 12 mi
  Waite Phillips's 1927 Italian villa and its Villa Lante-inspired gardens, given to Tulsa in 1938 and open as an art museum since October 1939, strong in Native American art.
• Creek Nation Council Oak Park — 12 mi
  The oak on a south Tulsa hill where the Lochapoka Muscogee lit their fire in 1836 after removal from Alabama, the ceremonial ground from which Tulsa took its name.
• Greenwood Rising — 14 mi
  The history center at Greenwood and Archer that tells how Tulsa's Black Wall Street was built, how white mobs burned it in 1921, and how its people rebuilt it.
• Muscogee (Creek) Nation Council House — 23 mi
  The Muscogee (Creek) Nation's 1878 stone capitol on the Okmulgee square, where the House of Kings and House of Warriors met, lost at statehood and bought back by the Nation in 2010.

More markers nearby

• Sapulpa — 5.4 mi
• First Oil Well, Tulsa County — 10 mi
• International Petroleum Exposition — 13 mi
• Booker T. Washington High School — 14 mi