Gilbertown is the site of the first producing oil well in Alabama. First permitted oil well in Alabama. The first permit to drill an oil well in Alabama, the A. R. Jackson Well No. 1, was granted to the Hunt Oil Company on January 2, 1944, near Gilbertown.
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