Ruffner Well
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two-bit Joe
N 38° 18.163 W 081° 33.366
17S E 451377 N 4239549
Ruffner Well
Waymark Code: WMP06
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2006
Views: 20
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.
Marker Title: Ruffner Well
Marker Location: S 60, Malden
County or Independent City: Kanawha
Web Site: [Web Link]
Marker Program Sponsor: WV Centennial Committee of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry – WV Historical Commission 1963
Marker Number: Not listed
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