History In Our Backyard- Oil City, Pennsylvania
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Come with us on a magical journey through the historical valley that changed the world. Trollies were everywhere, top hats were the fashion of the time, and the word 'oil' came from Rockefeller's mouth more so than the smoke from his pipe. History in Our Backyard details the triumphant story of the Pennsylvania Oil Region, as told by local historians and personalities. Five guys dressed in blue took it Penn State University to show, and the world has never been the same.
A longer and much higher quality version is available upon request.
I would recommend coming to my back yard in Burning Springs WV. The Rathbones who founded Exxon got their start here who's first well came in about same time as Drakes in 1859. We here always tend to get left out of the history of oil. Yet the fields here played for most part a far more important role in the exspanse of the industry.
The Rathbone well is the oldest producing well in West Virginia.
Very interesting stuff. Mildly ironic to have squeaky machinery operating an oil-pump :-)
Bucket list might have to move it up higher because it's priority . Very important place.
Okay question. at the end you show the massive 17? well mechanical power supply. He says its not running on gas at the moment so then what was powering it while it was running during the filming, water? didnt hear any engine sound at all so water only thing might be since its a not 'self sustaining' power unit.
"Native Americans gathered the oil to use as medicine." NO, no no.....'fracking' did that.
Fracking gathered the oil to be used as medicine?
Actually they did prior to fracturing being developed, oil will naturally come to the surface, if it's under a porous formation, they're called oil seeps. They occur alot along oil creek, it was actually the early method of detecting were to drill.
Hello to Oil City and Titusville. My family owned and operated an oil farm near Titusville and my aunt Jean was born and raised there. She also worked for the forest service at a fire tower atop one of the mountains. Our family had a hunting cabin there and was famous for my 4 uncles and the deer that they were able to harvest each year, their picture appeard in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette one year. If anyone remembers them: Stritzinger then I would like to say hello. I grew up running around in the forest and fishing there.
Another interesting fact about Oil City- the engines that powered Henry Ford's plant came from Oil City- the Riverside Engine Company, when it was owned and managed by Edward Gray. Gray later moved to Highland Park and became Ford's chief engineer at the plant that made cars affordable for almost anyone. Gray laid out the plans for the Highland Park plant and Albert Kahn designed a building around it. In his short bio in the publication, "City of Detroit", it mentions Gray's connection with Riverside Engine but doesn't list its location. If you search, though, you'll find it in Oil City. My grandfather worked for Edward Gray and joined him in Detroit in 1910, then left Ford with Gray and worked with him at Detroit Edison for a while before returning to Pennsylvania. Again in 1937 he went back to Detroit at Gray's request and worked in a private office with Gray and Gar Wood, the famous speed boat builder and racer.
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Man, I wish someone would grease that pump head. That huge squeak isn't cute.
A fun note for m is that derrick from where Bud Pelaghi narrates is a triangle of ground that once was owned by my family, the Simons and the Stantons on Main Street, before reconstruction in the early 1960s. The tunnel is closed at that end where Bud stands. We lived next to the tunnel and the depot.
Rest in Peace William Huber March 14, 1941 - December 18, 2017
What is the name of this song?
My ancestors managed McGovern well #2 on their farm in Halyday Run.
I traveled down route 8 and gone thru Titusville and by Pit Hole witch John Wilkes Booth had a oil well.
My father was born 1901 and worked as a pipefitter. Rouseville pa
all the historic videos need sub-titles! so we can share our glorioUS past-lives with the rest of the invesTories.
Where might I find a better/longer copy of this video?
This was awesome! I just did a road trip across Pennsylvania and noticed the Oil City sign, so was checking it out online. Great info, I'm going back to see the museum asap!
There's also a great oil related museum in Bradford Pennsylvania.
It's the trout streams you should be hitting.
great video, you did an awsome job. though am curious, where did you get your excerpt of oil on the brain? it's a great copy.
greetings from Philadelphia
Great work! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this video. So interesting to see the way it used to be.
This video needs remastering. I'm assuming this was filmed on magnetic tape instead of 35mm film. The cool thing about 35mm film is it is comparable to today's High Definition video.
the first oil well in Canada was in 1858
In Oil Springs and Oil City, Ontario?
Rockefeller never smoked from a pipe.
I live in oil city pa
Do you work on old wells!!!
I went to Drake's Well on a field trip. I got some oil but I lost it. I had a grape soda wrapped in timfoil. I guess my mom thought the tinfoil would keep it cold. No such luck!
Hey! I don't know if they still do it anymore but if'n ya want the real shit cherry coke, stop into the Famore's!
Hope they still gots comic books!
same i got the he little oil bottle to yea its gone
I have 2 of the bottles, I just tend to keep tabs of them.