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But 1892 was the last year that Pennsylvania wells provided a majority of the oil produced in the US, and in 1895, Ohio surpassed Pennsylvania as an oil producer. By 1907, the decline of the Pennsylvania fields and the great discoveries made in Texas, California, and Oklahoma, left Pennsylvania with less than 10% of the nation's oil production ...
As the oil boom continued, the Clarion Land and Improvement Company was chartered on August 10, 1864. [9] The charter of this company granted it the right to extract oil or minerals or otherwise improve up to 5000 acres of land in the northwestern Pennsylvania counties of Clarion, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, Venango, Mercer, and Lawrence, and to build railroads to connect its lands with any road ...
Sackett, Rush Valley Bucks County: Wrightstown Township: 1730 Most famous for the old Rushland station. [74] Safe Harbor: Lancaster County: Conestoga Township: See also Safe Harbor Dam. [75] Salemville: Westmoreland County: Salem Township: A coal mining ghost town. [51] Scotia: Centre County: Patton Township: 1922-1923 A mining town. [76] Scott ...
North Carolina was the site of the first gold rush in the United States, following the discovery of a 17-pound (7.7 kg) gold nugget by 12-year-old Conrad Reed in a creek at his father's farm in 1799. The Reed Gold Mine , southwest of Georgeville in Cabarrus County, North Carolina produced about 50,000 troy ounces (1,600 kg) of gold from lode ...
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A man found frozen in a Pennsylvania cave in 1977 has finally been identified, closing the book on a nearly 50-year-long mystery. The Berks County Coroner’s Office identified the remains of the ...
The Pennsylvania Petroleum Railroad was a railroad in Pennsylvania originally chartered in 1871, during the Pennsylvania oil rush.Intended to provide an additional outlet from the Pennsylvania oil fields to Erie, Pennsylvania, it graded about ten miles of line in 1872, but was then caught up in the collapse of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, which halted the project.