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Oil Creek
Early Drilling sites were often randomly...

Pioneer Run Creek, Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1865.
Around 1865, the demand for land caused the...

The Mechanisms of Oil Wells
This photograph and diagram from the late...

Triumph Hill
A lack of knowledge about geology led oil...

Storage Tanks
The technology to store and transport oil...

Bennehoff run
Early oil fields had storage tanks and company...

Tank Fire
The switch to iron storage tanks did not...

Gusher
Although assumed to be a common occurrence,...

Pithole City's Beginnings
Pithole City was typical of many towns that...

Pithole Overview
A view of Pithole from First Street, looking...

Pithole's Demise
As the supply of oil began to dry up, Pithole's...

Ghost Town
By 1870 Pithole was all but deserted, and...