The First Commercial Oil Well in Oklahoma

 

Yup.  That's what the stone says.

A.K.A. Nellie Johnstone Number One.

and

Completed April 15, 1897.

Fascinating

Bonus - 

It's ... It's ... It's a gun.

 

From a collection of slides identified as "Oklahoma".  And that's it.   No other info.

I'm sure some militaria aficionado could identify it ...but I can't.

Bonus - “Margret: Chronicle of an Affair – May 1969 to December 1970”

and in the Daily Mail 

Hello Oklahoma

Fitting perfectly into the "People Photograph The Strangest Things" category, we present .... A map of Oklahoma City.


Dull, yes?

Bonus - Deadly lightning kills more than 300 reindeer in Norway

Oklahoma's First Oil Well

Nellie Johnstone No 1

So now you know.

Bonus