Petunia #1  - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

- photo taken June 22, 2006

The Oklahoma State Capitol is the only capitol in the world surrounded by working oil wells.   The well directly south of the building's south entrance is nicknamed "Petunia #1" because the drilling began in the middle of a flower bed in 1941.  The well was completed in 1942 and produced up to 600 barrels of oil a day before running dry in 1986.