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In the late 1850s Seneca Oil Company (formerly the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company) sent Col. Edwin L. Drake, to start drilling on a piece of leased land just south of Titusville near what is now Oil Creek State Park. Drake hired a salt well driller, William A. Smith, in the summer of 1859.
On Hwy. 49 at Little Yazoo, 5 miles east of Tinsley Oil Field. Oil was first discovered in Mississippi in 1939 just west of here on the Mississippi River in the Gulf Coast region. The discovery of oil at Tinsley Field in Yazoo County marked the beginning of commercial production of petroleum products in Mississippi. During its first 50 years, 220,000,000 barrels of oil were produced.