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A number of companies and men started the process of drilling for oil in Arkansas. However, it wasn't until April 16, 1920, in which Colonel Samuel S. Hunter of the Hunter Oil Company of Shreveport, Louisiana, completed the first discovery and established an oil well in Arkansas.

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It would be either El Dorado or Smackover, Arkansas.

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